Wouters-Soomers Lies, Van Ruysseveldt Joris, Bos Arjan E R, Jacobs Nele
Faculty of Psychology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 18;13:920908. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.920908. eCollection 2022.
Psychological safety is important for the well-being and productivity of people in the workplace. Psychological safety becomes even more important and even more difficult to maintain in times of uncertainty. Previous research mainly focused on the influence of and on interpersonal relationships. This study applies an individual perspective by investigating what is needed on an individual level in order to build psychological safety. The expectation was that self-compassion induces an individual to experience higher positive affect, and this advances the development of positive relations and social acceptance. Moreover, we assumed that the mediation of the relationship between self-compassion and positive relations and social acceptance by positive affect is moderated by the level of basic need satisfaction. Participants ( = 560) from the Netherlands and Belgium completed an online questionnaire about their level of self-compassion, basic need satisfaction, positive affect and positive relations and social acceptance. Using hierarchical regression analyses for moderated mediation analysis, results showed that self-compassion and positive affect had a significant positive effect on positive relations and social acceptance. Positive affect significantly mediated the relationship between self-compassion and positive relations and social acceptance, when basic need satisfaction was low, but not when basic need satisfaction was high. Our research showed that individuals need either their basic needs satisfied or self-compassion so they can build the high-quality relations needed to stimulate psychological safety. This finding shifts attention from the dyadic relationship to the individual and highlights important factors at the individual level which advance the development of high-quality relationships with others.
心理安全对于职场人士的幸福感和工作效率至关重要。在不确定时期，心理安全变得更加重要且更难维持。以往的研究主要关注人际关系的影响以及人际关系对心理安全的影响。本研究从个体视角出发，探究在个体层面建立心理安全需要什么。研究预期是自我同情会促使个体体验到更高的积极情绪，进而推动积极人际关系的发展和社会接纳。此外，我们假设积极情绪在自我同情与积极人际关系和社会接纳之间起中介作用，且这一中介作用受基本需求满足程度的调节。来自荷兰和比利时的560名参与者完成了一份关于他们自我同情水平、基本需求满足程度、积极情绪以及积极人际关系和社会接纳的在线问卷。通过分层回归分析进行调节中介分析，结果表明自我同情和积极情绪对积极人际关系和社会接纳有显著的正向影响。当基本需求满足程度较低时，积极情绪显著中介了自我同情与积极人际关系和社会接纳之间的关系，但当基本需求满足程度较高时则不然。我们的研究表明，个体要么需要基本需求得到满足，要么需要自我同情，这样他们才能建立起促进心理安全所需的高质量人际关系。这一发现将注意力从二元关系转移到个体身上，并突出了个体层面促进与他人建立高质量关系的重要因素。
