Occupational burnout has negative consequences for individuals, organizations as well as society. Organizational risk factors for burnout have been empirically studied, and there are tools to evaluate them, such as the Areas of Worklife Scale (AWS; Leiter & Maslach, 2002). Individual risk factors have not received similar systematic attention, and there is no instrument to evaluate them. The Style personnel au travail questionnaire (SPT; Papineau, Desjardins, Legault, & Demers, 2014) was developed to fill this gap, based on a review of the factors that correlated with the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI; Maslach & Jackson, 1981). The decision tree of Kraemer et al. (1997) was used to identify modifiable individual risk factors, i.e. those that could be treated by an intervention. The SPT contains 26 items divided into 6 factors (perfectionism, low self-esteem, intolerance to uncertainty, pressure to perform, low self-esteem and tendency to worry). Two studies were conducted to test its fidelity as well as its factorial and convergent validity (Study 1, N = 233, Study 2, N = 417). Positive correlations were obtained between the SPT and the MBI-General Survey (MBI-GS, Schaufeli & Leiter, 1996). These results indicate that the psychometric properties of the SPT are adequate, and its factors correlate with at least one dimension of the MBI-GS. The SPT has proved to be a valid instrument, which will be useful to prevent and treat occupational burnout. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
