Psychological Engagement Scale (May, Gilson & Harter).
- What it measures
- Kahn-based personal work engagement plus its three psychological conditions - meaningfulness, safety, availability
- Length and format
- ~24 engagement + condition items (13-item engagement core; approx). 5-pt Likert (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages (Chinese, Persian, Spanish and others; approx 10+)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- May DR, Gilson RL, Harter LM. The psychological conditions of meaningfulness, safety and availability and the engagement of the human spirit at work. J Occup Organ Psychol. 2004;77(1):11-37.
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