School leadership engagement: validation of the Portuguese version of UWES scale

Silva, José Castro; Ferreira, Marco; Pacheco, Patrícia; Almeida, Ana Patrícia

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Authors

Silva, José Castro

Ferreira, Marco

Pacheco, Patrícia

Almeida, Ana Patrícia

Abstract(s)

The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) is a widely used self-report scale with the original twenty-three items and its abbreviated version of nine items to assess workers’ engagement. This paper reports a validation study of the UWES-17 and UWES-9 using confirmatory factor analysis, its convergent validity and invariance across gender in a sample of 921 Portuguese school leaders. The main findings support a bidimensional conceptualization of work engagement measurement. The Portuguese version of UWES-9 is proposed as a reliable and robust (CFI = 0.97; TLI = 0.95; RMSEA = 0.073) tool to assess work engagement amongst Portuguese school leadership. The 9-item UWES is a reliable instrument to assess work engagement among Portuguese school leaders and could be used as an effective screening tool in educational contexts.

Keywords

Work engagement UWES scale School leadership Assessment Confirmatory factor analysis

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/14988

Citation

Castro Silva J, Ferreira M, Pacheco P and Almeida A (2023) School leadership engagement: validation of the Portuguese version of UWES scale. Front. Educ. 8:1217806. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1217806