Adaptation of the Irvine-Minnesota Inventory to France

作者：Werner C; Rioux L^*; Mokounkolo R

来源：Pratiques Psychologiques, 2013, 19(1): 1-14.

DOI：10.1016/j.prps.2012.12.003

• Environmental psychology
• Inventory
• IMI adaptation
• Walkability
• Urban space

It is widely acknowledged that encouraging walking in urban environments should be a major public health goal. This view is supported by many studies in environmental psychology, in particular those designed to identify characteristics of the urban environment that support and encourage healthy walking. This article proposes to translate the Irvine-Minnesota Inventory (IMI), a well-established instrument, carefully developed to measure the potential walkability of city districts and neighborhoods, and to adapt this tool to so that it captures the unique historic and cultural features of French cities while still retaining the items that have made it so useful in the United States. A new French/American version of the IMI was developed, comprising 203 items. This version was tested in neighborhoods in a mid-size French city and yielded very good internal and inter-judge reliability and good discrimination.

• 出版日期2013-3