Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation study
Psychological safety is an important variable for understanding teams, as it is positively associated with team performance, team learning, and creativity. A large body of research has been conducted on psychological safety in teams that work face-to-face. The aim of this study was to investigate th...
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| description | Psychological safety is an important variable for understanding teams, as it is positively associated with team performance, team learning, and creativity. A large body of research has been conducted on psychological safety in teams that work face-to-face. The aim of this study was to investigate the construct validity of Edmondson's Team Psychological Safety Scale in the context of virtual student teams working on a joint project. The sample used in this study consisted of 344 students who took part in an interdisciplinary project-based master's course at a Norwegian university. The data were analyzed with single-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multilevel CFA (MCFA). Reliability was investigated with intra-class correlation coefficients, in addition to Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega. Overall, the reliability estimates and goodness-of-fit estimates from the CFAs demonstrated an adequately good level of fit for the one-factor structure of psychological safety in the context of virtual student project teams. The Team Psychological Safety Scale was shown to have acceptable levels of construct validity for the virtual student project teams. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-150f84f4620d4270b6528660a46133be2024-04-13T04:21:36ZengElsevierComputers in Human Behavior Reports2451-95882024-05-0114100413Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation studyEline Rødsjø0Ela Sjølie1Peter Van Petegem2Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU Faculty of Economics and Management Sem Sælands veg 1, 7034, Trondheim Norway; Corresponding author.Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU Faculty of Economics and Management Sem Sælands veg 1, 7034, Trondheim NorwayUniversity of Antwerp Faculty of Social Sciences Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen, BelgiumPsychological safety is an important variable for understanding teams, as it is positively associated with team performance, team learning, and creativity. A large body of research has been conducted on psychological safety in teams that work face-to-face. The aim of this study was to investigate the construct validity of Edmondson's Team Psychological Safety Scale in the context of virtual student teams working on a joint project. The sample used in this study consisted of 344 students who took part in an interdisciplinary project-based master's course at a Norwegian university. The data were analyzed with single-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multilevel CFA (MCFA). Reliability was investigated with intra-class correlation coefficients, in addition to Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega. Overall, the reliability estimates and goodness-of-fit estimates from the CFAs demonstrated an adequately good level of fit for the one-factor structure of psychological safety in the context of virtual student project teams. The Team Psychological Safety Scale was shown to have acceptable levels of construct validity for the virtual student project teams.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958824000460Psychological safetyValidationMultilevel confirmatory factor analysisVirtual student teams |
| spellingShingle | Eline Rødsjø Ela Sjølie Peter Van Petegem Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation study Computers in Human Behavior Reports Psychological safety Validation Multilevel confirmatory factor analysis Virtual student teams |
| title | Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation study |
| title_full | Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation study |
| title_fullStr | Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation study |
| title_short | Psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams: A validation study |
| title_sort | psychological safety in interdisciplinary virtual student project teams a validation study |
| topic | Psychological safety Validation Multilevel confirmatory factor analysis Virtual student teams |
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