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

Authors: B. Masluk, S. Gascón Santos, A. Albesa Cartagena, A. Asensio Martinez, E. Peck, M. P. Leiter

Published in: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology | Issue 1/2018

Abstract

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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Title: “Areas of Worklife scale” (AWS) short version (Spanish): a confirmatory factor analysis based on a secondary school teacher sample
Authors: B. Masluk
S. Gascón Santos
A. Albesa Cartagena
A. Asensio Martinez
E. Peck
M. P. Leiter
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology / Issue 1/2018
Electronic ISSN: 1745-6673
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0202-0

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