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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Team Psychological Safety Scale (Edmondson).

TPS

What it measures
Team psychological safety - shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking (asking for help, admitting mistakes, raising concerns).
Length and format
7 items. 7-pt Likert (very inaccurate -> very accurate); some reverse-keyed (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many incl. KO, ZH, ES, DE, PT and others
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350-383.

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