Development and validation of tools to screen occupational mental health and workplace factors influencing it: for the Indian workforce.

ABSTRACT: An imbalance in the key organizational psychology constructs viz. "Workload", "Reward", "Community", "Control", "Values" and "Fairness" are potential factors leading to negative occupational mental health, i.e. burnout. Burnout, a psychological syndrome is the combination of emotional exhaustion, sense of reduced compassion and accomplishment. To note, the concept of occupational mental health in a nation with second largest workforce is nascent. Further, the utility of existing western tools in Indian subcontinent is limited by culturally inappropriateness, patented, less comprehensible and other factors. Present study attempted to develop tools to screen occupational mental health and workplace areas. Conventional steps involved in psychological tool development, viz. construct identific

SUBMITTER: Balachandar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10277194 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature