Développement et validation de l'échelle de mesure du climat de santé mentale
This thesis has the objective to verify the construct validity and internal consistency of a new scale that measures mental health climate. It also aims to observe the convergent validity based on associations between dimensions of mental health climate and dimensions of burnout and well-being. The concept of mental health climate was developed by the Équipe de Recherche sur le Travail et la Santé Mentale. Therefore mental health climate is an important resource for workers to cope with difficulties that may arise in their workplace. Mental health climate is defined as the shared perceptions of policies, procedures and organizational practices that reflect a concern for stress and mental health at work. To validate this new scale of measurement we used the primary data of 40 civilians and police officers of the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM).    According to the results the original scale of ten items needs to be reworked. We made a few changes on this scale to provide an accurate measurement scale of mental health climate of eight items or a short scale of three items. The results highlight the importance of managers to ensure a positive mental health climate within their organization.
santé mentale mental health climate mental health well-being burnout