Dataset of social, personal, and work resources associated with work engagement among knowledge workers in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic

This data was obtained from a cross-sectional survey of 259 knowledge workers in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic. A regression analysis was conducted to assess the link between resilience, supervisor support, family and friend support, psychological empowerment, and facilitating conditions with work engagement using the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) 26. Specifically, this article provides data about the participants’ demographic characteristics and the descriptive data of participants’ responses. Further, the mean, standard deviation, reliability of the measured constructs and the model summary of regression analysis is provided. The findings indicated a significant influence of psychological empowerment, resilience, and facilitating conditions on employee engagement. This dataset offers suggestions to the top management in deducing ways to increase employees' work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic.