The Measurement of Engagement and Burnout: A Two Sample Confirmatory Factor Analytic Approach
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...Schaufeli et al. (2002a) observed that a core burnout factor—consisting of exhaustion and cynicism—and an extended engagement factor—including professional efficacy in addition to the three original engagement scales—fitted the data best....
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...The items of the UWES are grouped into three subscales that reflect the underlying dimensions of engagement: Vigor (VI) (six items; e.g., ‘When I get up in the morning, I feel like going to work’); Dedication (DE) (five items; e.g., ‘I am enthusiastic about my job’), and Absorption (AB) (six items; e.g., ‘When I am working, I forget everything else around me’)....
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...Two recent studies using confirmative factor analysis demonstrated the factorial validity of the UWES (Schaufeli et al., 2002a, 2002b)....
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...25, 293–315 (2004) Engagement was assessed with the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES; Schaufeli et al., 2002a)....
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...While Maslach and Leiter (1997) argue that burnout and engagement are the endpoints of a continuum that is spanned by the MBI, and Schaufeli et al. (2002a, 2002b) argue that burnout and engagement are independent states that should be measured separately by different instruments, the OLBI is…...
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...Schaufeli et al. (2002, p. 74) define engagement “as a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption.” They further state that engagement is not a momentary and specific state, but rather, it is “a more persistent and pervasive affective-cognitive state that is not focused on any particular object, event, individual, or behavior” (p. 74)....
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...The important considerations for present purposes are (a) the distinct characterization of persistence or stability, if not consistency of experience of that state, and (b) the elevated emotional tone of the state itself (Schaufeli et al., 2002)....
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...Most of the engagement measures we have seen failed to get the conceptualization correct, so the measures do not, if youwill, measure up (for exceptions, see Salanova et al., 2005; Schaufeli et al., 2002)....
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...…work comes close to what has been called ‘flow’, a state of optimal experience that is characterized by focused attention, clear mind, mind and body unison, effortless concentration, complete control, loss of self-consciousness, distortion of time, and intrinsic enjoyment (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)....
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