The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validation

Abstract Although organisations can effectively resist risks and enhance organisational performance by creating a Perception of Psychological Safety (PPS) climate, there is a lack of PPS scales developed under a multidimensional integrated interaction perspective. Based on a review of relevant theor...

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Main Authors: Canghong Wang, Yuwen Ning
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Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-12-01
Series:BMC Psychology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02295-3
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description Abstract Although organisations can effectively resist risks and enhance organisational performance by creating a Perception of Psychological Safety (PPS) climate, there is a lack of PPS scales developed under a multidimensional integrated interaction perspective. Based on a review of relevant theories, this paper clearly defines the concept of PPS and proposes a three-dimensional model of PPS, including organisational- level PPS, team- level PPS, and dyadic- level PPS. In this paper, we develop and validate a scale for measuring PPS in the workplace using 12 startups in a relatively economically developed region in the southeastern coastal region of China as the empirical target. The results of the empirical analyses show that the scale we developed has a good level of reliability and consistency, as well as good content validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity.
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spelling doaj-art-e3c5ece5bcbf42faa3d63306078d9e642024-12-22T12:56:25ZengBMCBMC Psychology2050-72832024-12-0112111510.1186/s40359-024-02295-3The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validationCanghong Wang0Yuwen Ning1School of Accounting and Finance, Xi’an Peihua UniversityTeaching and Research Support Center, Air Force Medical UniversityAbstract Although organisations can effectively resist risks and enhance organisational performance by creating a Perception of Psychological Safety (PPS) climate, there is a lack of PPS scales developed under a multidimensional integrated interaction perspective. Based on a review of relevant theories, this paper clearly defines the concept of PPS and proposes a three-dimensional model of PPS, including organisational- level PPS, team- level PPS, and dyadic- level PPS. In this paper, we develop and validate a scale for measuring PPS in the workplace using 12 startups in a relatively economically developed region in the southeastern coastal region of China as the empirical target. The results of the empirical analyses show that the scale we developed has a good level of reliability and consistency, as well as good content validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02295-3Perception of psychological safetyTeam psychological safetyCreative self- efficacyOrganisational performance
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The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validation
BMC Psychology
Perception of psychological safety
Team psychological safety
Creative self- efficacy
Organisational performance
title The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validation
title_full The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validation
title_fullStr The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validation
title_full_unstemmed The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validation
title_short The employee’s perception of psychological safety: construct dimensions, scale development and validation
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topic Perception of psychological safety
Team psychological safety
Creative self- efficacy
Organisational performance
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