Scale validation for home office work scale (HOWS) assessment during the COVID - 19 pandemic

Lucio Lage Gonçalves,Antonio Egidio Nardi,Mariana King Pádua,Anna Lucia Spear King,Hugo Dos Santos,Douglas Rodrigues

doi:10.15761/mhar.1000201

Abstract

Scale validation for home office work scale (HOWS) assessment during the COVID - 19 pandemic

Highlights

With the imposition of social isolation due to the expansion of the new coronavirus, (COVID - 19) impacting changes in the routine of individuals were necessary and the stay at home motivated adaptations in the consumption of products and services, as well as personal, professional interactions, leisure activities and teaching.The assessment of human behavior in times of great impacts is of vital importance for understanding human behavioral dynamics
The internal consistency of the scale showed a positive result of 0.7477536 by the GLB Algebric coefficient (Greatest Lower Bound), for questionnaires applied for the first time
The Home Office Work Scale (HOWS) scale was validated to be applied in situations where people are in the work situation in the Home Office in social isolation

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Introduction

With the imposition of social isolation due to the expansion of the new coronavirus, (COVID - 19) impacting changes in the routine of individuals were necessary and the stay at home motivated adaptations in the consumption of products and services, as well as personal, professional interactions, leisure activities and teaching.The assessment of human behavior in times of great impacts is of vital importance for understanding human behavioral dynamics. With the imposition of social isolation due to the expansion of the new coronavirus, (COVID - 19) impacting changes in the routine of individuals were necessary and the stay at home motivated adaptations in the consumption of products and services, as well as personal, professional interactions, leisure activities and teaching. Among other behaviors and feelings, tend to affect individuals as well as those around them, and this is especially the case during the pandemic of COVID-19 [3]. Staying at home led to the adaptation of many professional activities to work at home (Home Office) in order to make possible the continuity and creation of new work systems, but it affected the routine of the home and the way of working, allowing substantial changes in people's behavior, justifying this study

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