Descripción

The general objective of the present investigation is the creation of a psychometric instrument called MEIL, to measure extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in a work context. To comply with this, it was proposed as specific objectives, to identify the validity of content, construct validity and reliability. Regarding the methodology, it can be mentioned that it is a quantitative study, empirical - analytical, descriptive and instrumental, and of a non-experimental design of cross-sectional, applied to a sample of 265 university teachers. As a final result, the psychometric properties of the instrument were obtained in the following way: the content validity was achieved through the evaluation with expert judges; the construct validity was defined by means of the factor analysis and the reliability was analyzed with Cronbach’s Alpha, achieving an excellent result in the latter.