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Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context
Academic engagement in recent years has become the focus of determining student learning and achievement. However,despite this growing awareness that has revolutionized academic policies and educational approaches, literature on engagement in the academic context is still in its infancy. This study...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36313583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03737-0 |
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author | Chi, Li-Chiu Tang, Tseng-Chung Tang, Eugene |
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description | Academic engagement in recent years has become the focus of determining student learning and achievement. However,despite this growing awareness that has revolutionized academic policies and educational approaches, literature on engagement in the academic context is still in its infancy. This study seeks to remedy this through the confirmation of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students’ (UWES-S) promising psychometric properties and by providing empirical evidence on the relationship between academic engagement, personality traits, and social media addiction, a determinant that has yet to be explored. Our findings indicate that of the five personality traits analyzed, agreeableness had the strongest negative correlation with academic engagement, and perhaps equally as striking is the positive, albeit insignificant, association between social media and academic engagement. Furthermore, the most informative and least informative items for academic engagement were identified using IRT analysis. Finally, this study also addresses several gaps in the literature by determining that the one-factor construct of the UWES-S is an adequate measure of academic engagement compared to its three-factor counterpart and by demonstrating the measurement invariance of the UWES-S across gender, class year, and academic major in our sample of Taiwanese undergraduates. |
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spelling | pubmed-95896662022-10-24 Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context Chi, Li-Chiu Tang, Tseng-Chung Tang, Eugene Curr Psychol Article Academic engagement in recent years has become the focus of determining student learning and achievement. However,despite this growing awareness that has revolutionized academic policies and educational approaches, literature on engagement in the academic context is still in its infancy. This study seeks to remedy this through the confirmation of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students’ (UWES-S) promising psychometric properties and by providing empirical evidence on the relationship between academic engagement, personality traits, and social media addiction, a determinant that has yet to be explored. Our findings indicate that of the five personality traits analyzed, agreeableness had the strongest negative correlation with academic engagement, and perhaps equally as striking is the positive, albeit insignificant, association between social media and academic engagement. Furthermore, the most informative and least informative items for academic engagement were identified using IRT analysis. Finally, this study also addresses several gaps in the literature by determining that the one-factor construct of the UWES-S is an adequate measure of academic engagement compared to its three-factor counterpart and by demonstrating the measurement invariance of the UWES-S across gender, class year, and academic major in our sample of Taiwanese undergraduates. Springer US 2022-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9589666/ /pubmed/36313583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03737-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Chi, Li-Chiu Tang, Tseng-Chung Tang, Eugene Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context |
title | Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context |
title_full | Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context |
title_fullStr | Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context |
title_short | Psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Students (UWES-S) in the Taiwanese context |
title_sort | psychometric properties of the utrecht work engagement scale for students (uwes-s) in the taiwanese context |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36313583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03737-0 |
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