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USING THE COPSOQ IN
THE WORKPLACE IN
BRAZIL
CASSIA APARECIDA RODRIGUES (PHD STUDENT)
PHD FABIÁN JAVIER MARIN RUEDA ( DOCTORAL SUPERVISOR)
UNIVERSIDADE SÃO FRANCISCO, SP, BRASIL)
AGENDA
✓ Researches
✓ Project SESI
✓ Method
✓ Procedure
✓ Results
✓ Other study
✓ Reflections
✓ Advantages and Disadvantages
✓ Relationship with regulation
✓ Current Research
PROJECT SESI
2014 – 2015, SESI
PROJECT - SESI MODEL
OF PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK
ASSESSMENT
COPSOQ-ISTAS21
State of Parana
CNPq- National Council for Scientific and
Technological Development
Method
✓ A cross-sectional and exploratory design.
✓ A qualitative and quantitative approach for the cross-
cultural adaptation.
✓ Construction worker sector.
✓ Procedure:
1. Identify the dimensions;
2. Translation and Translation Synthesis;
3. Retro Translation and Synthesis;
4. Validity of Content - Validity Analysis of Content;
• Expert judges (N=3), a nurse, an engineer - both from health
and safety - and a project specialist).
5. Pre-test version - Individual interviews (N=8);
• Likert scale 5 points to Likert type of 3 points.
6. Test version - Pilot study (N=51).
Method
Results✓ Judges and workers (pre-test) considered items with little clarity.
✓ Some dimensions: functional mobility, salary, or social support
from colleagues.
Item (Example) Action
Judges and
Workers
(pre-test)
5. ¿Realizas tareas de distintos puestos de trabajo?
Excluded from the
questionnaire
22. Aproximadamente ¿cuánto cobras neto al mes?
27.c) Tus compañeros hablan contigo sobre cómo haces tu trabajo?
Rewritten
✓ Difficulty of workers to understand the Likert 5 point scale;
✓ Special feature of the sample?
✓ Workers who participated in the research:
✓ Educational level - elementary and high school;
✓ Job categories - bricklayer;
✓ For another sample of workers, it is suggested the
possibility of returning to the scale proposed in the
original instrument.
Results
✓ Insertion of the Offensive Behaviors dimension.
✓ Proposal for the institution (SESI) to continue the
project to validate the instrument.
Results
RECENT PUBLICATION
RECENT PUBLICATION
✓ Translation and content validity;
✓ 1.615 Brazilian employees - online sample, education level –graduated, administrative and technical job categories;
✓ Psychometric analysis - Exploratory and Confirmatory FactorAnalysis, Structural Regression Model and Multi-Group Analysis;
✓ Result a short version suitable to Brazilian Portuguese.
✓ New researches:
✓ Face-to-face and online application;
✓ Different populations;
✓ Predictive validity;
✓ Most up-to-date version of the instrument.
Silva, Wendt & Argimon, 2017.
REFLECTIONS
FROM STUDIES
COPSOQ BRAZIL
ADVANTAGES
✓It sensitizes workers to reflect
on psychosocial factors and
their importance in the work
environment.
✓For employers, it enables
prevention strategies.
✓An instrument with scientific
evidence to assess
psychosocial factors.
DISADVANTAGES
✓Resistance from employers.
✓Workers fear to respond reliably.
✓Different versions used by
different professionals. Some
versions without validity,
reliability or standardization
studies.
✓There is no data on the use of
the COPSOQ method. Only to
assess.
REGULATION IN BRAZIL FOR
PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS
✓ Inefficient legal, regulatory or normative support.
✓ Psychosocial risks - recent compulsory concern (e-social/2018).
✓ e-social – online government platform for unifying information
regarding tax, social security and labor obligations. It
standardizes the transmission, validation, storage and
distribution of data.
http://portal.esocial.gov.br/
REGULATION IN BRAZIL FOR
PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS
✓High costs associated with psychosocial work risks.
✓Initiatives focused only on consequences.
✓Non-understanding or appreciation that psychosocial
work risks should be a priority as any other risks of the
work environment.
✓Change of mental work model - Psychosocial Health.
CONTINUITY AND
RESEARCH
✓PhD Thesis at the São Francisco
University (Campinas, São Paulo,
under the guidance of PhD
Fabián Javier Marín Rueda)
✓ Search psychometric
properties of COPSOQ III in
brasilian context.
✓ Representative sample;
✓ Evidence of content validity;
✓ Evidence of validity with external variables (well-being
and job satisfaction and social support);
✓ Internal structure and precision estimates.
CONTINUITY AND RESEARCH
