Adaptação da escala de Empowerment Psicológico de Spreitzer numa amostra portuguesa

  1. Joana Vieira dos Santos
  2. Gabriela Gonçalves
  3. Alejandro Orgambídez-Ramos
  4. Yolanda Borrego-Ales
  5. Isabel Mendoza-Sierra
Revista:
Avaliaçao Psicologica: Interamerican Journal of Psychological Assessment

ISSN: 2175-3431 1677-0471

Any de publicació: 2014

Volum: 13

Número: 3

Pàgines: 325-332

Tipus: Article

Altres publicacions en: Avaliaçao Psicologica: Interamerican Journal of Psychological Assessment

Resum

Psychological empowerment is a motivational construct, by ensuring conditions that increase motivation to perform tasks, with a strong sense of self-efficacy. The present study aimed to examine the factor structure of the psychological empowerment scale in a Portuguese sample of 230 individuals, employees of a public university in Portugal. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis of the 12 items on the scale show a structure of four factors, with high internal consistency, which suggests appropriateness for application to a Portuguese population. We reiterate the urgent need to further examine this issue, namely, its relationship with other organizational processes.

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