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Validated measure · Team climate

Team Psychological Safety.

Assess whether your team feels safe to speak candidly, ask for help, take interpersonal risks, and contribute without fear of humiliation or punishment.

7 itemsAbout 3 minutesTeam-level climate

Directions

Answer with one specific team in mind.

Read each statement and select the response that best reflects your experience on that team. Base your answers on what usually happens. Set aside what the team intends to happen.

Items 1, 3, and 5 are negatively worded and are reverse-scored automatically.

One response represents one perspective. Psychological safety is a property of a team climate. A leader’s result cannot establish a team-level diagnosis or replace confidential input from team members.
Psychological safety

The belief that the work environment is safe for interpersonal risk taking. It allows people to raise questions, ideas, concerns, and mistakes without expecting humiliation or punishment.

Your progress0 of 7 answered

Edmondson’s seven-item scale

Select one response for each statement.

Please answer all seven items before viewing your result.

Your result

Your view of the team climate.

Your score is the mean of all seven items after reverse-scoring the three negatively worded statements.

Mean score
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Possible range: 1.0 to 5.0

Interpretive range

Result

Source guidance: Scores of 4.0 or above indicate high psychological safety; scores from 3.0 through 3.9 indicate moderate psychological safety; scores below 3.0 indicate low psychological safety.

For a team-level picture: Invite team members to respond independently and confidentially. Review the average, the spread of responses, and differences across items. Do not use identifiable responses for performance evaluation or employment decisions.

Measure source

About the scale

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

The seven items and interpretation ranges on this page follow the assessment document supplied to The Good Leader Institute. Items 1, 3, and 5 are reverse-scored before the mean is calculated.

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