Yang Tao, Cai Huicong, Song Juan, Li Na, Liu Haiyan
School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China.
BMC Psychol. 2025 Jan 28;13(1):80. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-02401-z.
Psychological safety as the key to mental health, not only affects individual happiness and quality of life but also relates to social stability and harmony. However, psychological safety is complex and multidimensional, with unclear internal structures and influencing factors and insufficient research on gender and age differences. Urban residents are living in an environment characterized by fast-paced, high-pressure, multicultural integration, and complex social relationships. Therefore, in-depth exploration of its core dimensions and network structure is crucial for formulating effective mental health strategies and enhancing residents' sense of psychological safety.
A survey was conducted on 9,282 urban residents using the Psychological Safety Scale. Using R version 4.3.2 for network estimation, centrality estimation, accuracy and stability estimation, and network comparison.
The results found that the strength centrality index of the general sense of safety dimension is always the highest in the total network and networks of different genders and ages. The network comparison results show that there are significant gender and age differences in the dimensions/item networks of psychological safety. There are connections between trust and relaxation, excitement, and calmness in the dimension network of male samples, while there are no such connections in the dimension network of female samples. The general sense of safety and relaxation connection strength on the male dimension network is significantly stronger than that on the female dimension. In the dimension network of the youth sample, the strength of the connection between calmness and relaxation, trust and relaxation were significantly stronger than those of the middle-age sample, while the strength of the connection between relaxation and excitement was significantly weaker than that of the middle-age sample.
Researchers should fully consider gender and age factors and adopt more personalized and differentiated strategies for promoting individual psychological safety.
心理安全感作为心理健康的关键，不仅影响个人幸福和生活质量，还关乎社会稳定与和谐。然而，心理安全感复杂且多维度，其内部结构和影响因素尚不明确，关于性别和年龄差异的研究也不足。城市居民生活在节奏快、压力大、多元文化融合且社会关系复杂的环境中。因此，深入探究其核心维度和网络结构对于制定有效的心理健康策略以及增强居民的心理安全感至关重要。
使用心理安全感量表对9282名城市居民进行调查。运用R版本4.3.2进行网络估计、中心性估计、准确性和稳定性估计以及网络比较。
结果发现，总体安全感维度的强度中心性指数在总网络以及不同性别和年龄的网络中始终最高。网络比较结果表明，心理安全感的维度/项目网络存在显著的性别和年龄差异。男性样本维度网络中信任与放松、兴奋和平静之间存在联系，而女性样本维度网络中不存在此类联系。男性维度网络上总体安全感与放松的连接强度显著强于女性维度网络。在青年样本维度网络中，平静与放松、信任与放松之间的连接强度显著强于中年样本，而放松与兴奋之间的连接强度显著弱于中年样本。
研究人员应充分考虑性别和年龄因素，采取更具个性化和差异化的策略来促进个体心理安全。
