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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