What Factors Impact Psychological Safety in Engineering Student Teams? A Mixed-Method Longitudinal Investigation
What Factors Impact Psychological Safety in Engineering Student Teams? A Mixed-Method Longitudinal Investigation
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哪些因素影响工科学生团队的心理安全？
DOI：
10.1115/1.4055434
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Miller, Scarlett R.
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作者：
Cole, Courtney;O’Connell, Abigail;Gong, Zibing;Jablokow, Kathryn;Mohammad, Susan;Ritter, Sarah;Heininger, Katie;Marhefka, Jacqueline;Miller, Scarlett R.
虽然团队合作被整合在整个工程教育，因为团队的感知效益，心理安全的建设在很大程度上被忽视的工程研究。这种遗漏是不幸的，因为心理安全反映了团队成员在分享他们的观点时感觉如何舒适的集体看法，并且已经发现它对工程以外的样本中的团队绩效产生了积极影响。虽然先前的研究表明，心理安全与团队绩效和成果呈正相关，但与工程团队心理安全相关的研究较少。还缺乏全面的方法来捕捉整个设计过程中和每个时间点发生的动态变化。有鉴于此，本研究的目标是了解如何在工程专业学生团队中随着时间的推移实际和可靠地测量心理安全。此外，我们试图确定影响这些团队随着时间的推移心理安全的建立和减弱的因素。这是通过一项研究完成的，有260名工程专业的学生参加了一年级的工程设计课程，他们分成68个小组。在一个学期的设计项目过程中，每个团队在五个时间点上的心理安全感被捕获。这项研究的结果提供了一些第一个证据的可靠性，心理安全的工程团队，并提供见解，如何支持和提高心理安全。
Although teamwork is being integrated throughout engineering education because of the perceived benefits of teams, the construct of psychological safety has been largely ignored in engineering research. This omission is unfortunate because psychological safety reflects collective perceptions about how comfortable team members feel in sharing their perspectives, and it has been found to positively impact team performance in samples outside of engineering. While prior research has indicated that psychological safety is positively related to team performance and outcomes, research related to psychological safety in engineering teams is less established. There is also a lack of comprehensive methodologies that capture the dynamic changes that occur throughout the design process and at each time point. In light of this, the goal of the current study was to understand how psychological safety might be measured practically and reliably in engineering student teams over time. In addition, we sought to identify factors that impact the building and waning of psychological safety in these teams over time. This was accomplished through a study with 260 engineering students in 68 teams in a first-year engineering design class. The psychological safety of the teams was captured for each team over five time points over the course of a semester long design project. The results of this study provide some of the first evidence on the reliability of psychological safety in engineering teams and offer insights as to how to support and improve psychological safety.