 Development and Validation of a Scale for Psychological Safety in School Among High School Students in IndiaDebarshi Roy Management and Labour Studies, 2019, vol. 44, issue 4, 394-416 Abstract: The concept of psychological safety in the workplace is becoming increasingly important to organizational culture and planning. Kahn (1990, Academy of Management Journal, 33(4), 692–724) had defined psychological safety as ‘being able to show and employ one’s self without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status or career’. For the purposes of this study, the researcher emphasized on the need for the members of an organization to feel safe, which is a step beyond just being safe. This study explores the various dimensions of psychological safety among a group of 405 high school students from across India. The study involved the administration of a confidential questionnaire involving 21 items. A principal component analysis involving the results of the survey led to the extraction of four factors. These factors were termed as protect, support, encourage and include. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to validate the model, and the model-fit results were within the acceptable range. The subsequent model was termed as the PSEI (Protect, Support, Encourage, Include) model for psychological safety in schools. Keywords: Psychological safety; principal component analysis; SEM; CFA; schools (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:manlab:v:44:y:2019:i:4:p:394-416 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Management and Labour Studies from XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources |
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