Construction of a psychosocial risks diagnostic tool based on a psychodynamic work perspective (PWP)

Since the 1980s, work-related mental disorders have strongly increased due to the paradigm shift in the working world. In consequence, interventions in tertiary prevention have increased and the complaints reported often refer to concepts like the loss of the ideal and work meaning, the difficulty of doing one's job well and so on. According to the PWP, these complaints point to a deterioration in the subjective relationship with the workplace. However, to our knowledge, there is no psychosocial risks diagnostic tool in this PWP. The objective of this study is to create such a questionnaire aimed at detecting the sources of suffering at work according to this approach in order to interventions aimed at improving working conditions. Two focus groups were carried out with occupational clinician practitioners in order to extract dimensions of the PWP and to share common patients’ expressions in consultation to relate their experience on these PWP dimensions. Finally, we found 11 dimensions such as work meaning, job identity, work values or ethical suffering. The patients’ expressions will help in creating the specific items of each dimension. A first version of the questionnaire will be presented. The next stages are concerned with a content validation of the questionnaire with another population of occupational clinician practitioners and a quantitative validation (DELPHI method) with psychosocial prevention advisors. Finally, the final stage will allow validating the questionnaire on a large scale with different populations of workers from the public and private sectors.