Designing and Constructing a Tool for "Psychosocial Risks of Workplace"

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Tahereh Esmaeili bidhendi ¹ , Majid Barzegar ² , Zahra Naghsh ³

1 - 1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran.
2 - 2. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
3 - 3. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2024-02-24 Accepted : 2024-04-08 Published : 2024-06-13

Keywords: Evaluation, Construction, Design, Psycho-Social Risks, Work Environment.,

Abstract :

 

Purpose: The current research was conducted with the aim of designing a tool for assessment " Designing and Constructing a Tool for "Psychosocial Risks of Workplace" in 2023.

Methodology: This research was conducted by reviewing the upstream texts and also by asking the opinions of experts (20 experts) in a mixed exploratory type of tool development. In order to collect data in the qualitative part, in addition to reviewing the texts, a semi-structured interview was also used, and in the quantitative part, the compiled tool of the qualitative part was used as the foundation of the research, and this way the qualitative part was mixed with the quantitative part. The method of data analysis was thematic analysis, calculation of CVR, CVI, IS, DP and IC.

Findings: The findings of the qualitative part by reviewing the above documents showed the number of 69 effective components in psycho-social risks and their effects on the evaluation of the work environment, based on which the initial pool was prepared with 83 items. After providing the initial pool of items to the experts, the findings of the CVI and CVR review showed that 31 items were not of the required quality according to the experts and were removed. Regarding IS, DP and IC, values higher than 1.5, 1 and 0.7 were obtained for all the remaining 52 items, respectively.

Conclusion: In general, it can be said that the prepared 52-item form has the necessary conditions for examination at the level of the main sample of the target group, and it can be used in a large sample of the target group to achieve the final structure and norm scores.

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