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“Areas of Worklife scale” (AWS) short version (Spanish): a confirmatory factor analysis based on a secondary school teacher sample

BACKGROUND: This study examines the construct validity of the Areas of Worklife Short Scale, a practical instrument to measure employees’ perceptions of their work environments in the sample of secondary obligatory education teachers in Spain. METHODS: Conducted in 33 centers of secondary obligatory...

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Autores principales: Masluk, B., Gascón Santos, S., Albesa Cartagena, A., Asensio Martinez, A., Peck, E., Leiter, M. P.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29983726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0202-0
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author Masluk, B.
Gascón Santos, S.
Albesa Cartagena, A.
Asensio Martinez, A.
Peck, E.
Leiter, M. P.
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Asensio Martinez, A.
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description BACKGROUND: This study examines the construct validity of the Areas of Worklife Short Scale, a practical instrument to measure employees’ perceptions of their work environments in the sample of secondary obligatory education teachers in Spain. METHODS: Conducted in 33 centers of secondary obligatory education in Spain (N = 677). Confirmatory Factor analysis for 3 different models for the 29-items version and 1 model for the 18-items version was tested. RESULTS: Results confirmed that the short AWS short version had the best fit to the data than any other model proposed (GFI-Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-squared = 320.19, × 2/df = 2.337) and good fit indices (CFI = 0.911; RMSEA = 0.046). CONCLUSIONS: This analysis ultimately supports the appropriateness of AWS short version to explore areas of worklife and therefore can indicate the factors that contribute to burnout in the sample of secondary obligatory education teachers in Spain. Therefore it has been confirmed that this tool is able to assess the 6 domains of work environment of secondary schools teachers.
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spelling pubmed-60198272018-07-06 “Areas of Worklife scale” (AWS) short version (Spanish): a confirmatory factor analysis based on a secondary school teacher sample Masluk, B. Gascón Santos, S. Albesa Cartagena, A. Asensio Martinez, A. Peck, E. Leiter, M. P. J Occup Med Toxicol Methodology BACKGROUND: This study examines the construct validity of the Areas of Worklife Short Scale, a practical instrument to measure employees’ perceptions of their work environments in the sample of secondary obligatory education teachers in Spain. METHODS: Conducted in 33 centers of secondary obligatory education in Spain (N = 677). Confirmatory Factor analysis for 3 different models for the 29-items version and 1 model for the 18-items version was tested. RESULTS: Results confirmed that the short AWS short version had the best fit to the data than any other model proposed (GFI-Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-squared = 320.19, × 2/df = 2.337) and good fit indices (CFI = 0.911; RMSEA = 0.046). CONCLUSIONS: This analysis ultimately supports the appropriateness of AWS short version to explore areas of worklife and therefore can indicate the factors that contribute to burnout in the sample of secondary obligatory education teachers in Spain. Therefore it has been confirmed that this tool is able to assess the 6 domains of work environment of secondary schools teachers. BioMed Central 2018-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6019827/ /pubmed/29983726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0202-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Masluk, B.
Gascón Santos, S.
Albesa Cartagena, A.
Asensio Martinez, A.
Peck, E.
Leiter, M. P.
“Areas of Worklife scale” (AWS) short version (Spanish): a confirmatory factor analysis based on a secondary school teacher sample
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title_sort “areas of worklife scale” (aws) short version (spanish): a confirmatory factor analysis based on a secondary school teacher sample
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29983726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0202-0
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