Preventing workplace mistreatment and improving workers' mental health: a scoping review of the impact of psychosocial safety climate.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Work environment is rapidly evolving, unfortunately, it is also becoming increasingly hostile for workers due mostly to common psychosocial hazards. This situation is posing significant challenges for organisations to protect the psychological well-being of their workers. Hence, this review aims to map studies to understand the influence of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) on workplace mistreatment and mental health of workers.

Methods

The guidelines outlined by Arksey and O'Malley were adopted for this review. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR, Google and Google Scholar were searched for relevant papers. Only peer-reviewed studies that measured PSC using PSC-12, PSC-8 or PSC-4 were included in this review.

Results

Thirty-eight studies met the inclusio

SUBMITTER: Amoadu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11003102 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature