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

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posted on 2024-06-18, 09:23 authored by B Masluk, S Gascón Santos, A Albesa Cartagena, A Asensio Martinez, E Peck, MP Leiter
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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Journal

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology

Volume

13

Pagination

1-10

Location

London, Eng.

Open access

  • Yes

ISSN

1745-6673

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2018, The Author(s)

Issue

20

Publisher

BioMed Central

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