Objective:

To provide a tool that allows stress evaluation from a coping perspective to explore the psychometric characteristics of the occupational stress-OSI in Colombian context.

Method:

A de scriptive cross - sectional design - correlational. For exploring the psychometric characteristics of the occupational stress-OSI, 500 adult male workers, between 17 and 71 years of age from public and private companies in Colombia were sampled through a questionnaire. The psychometric properties related to the difficulty and discrimination of the items through the T- test, the reli ability through the Cronbach coefficient and the factorial validity through a maximum likelihood analysis with varimax rotation.

Results:

The occupational stress-OSI inventory has high reliability (a = 0.88) and partial homogeneity in the scales and subscales that make up the instrument, which explain 43 % of the total variance in the behavior of occupational stress.

Conclusion:

The occupational stress inventory-OSI is a potentially useful tool to evaluate stress in the Colombian population.

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