# How Psychological Safety Affects Team Performance: Mediating Role of Efficacy and Learning Behavior

*Kim · Team Learning · Frontiers in Psychology · 2020 · Open access*

Meta-analytic structural equation modelling study showing that psychological safety affects team performance indirectly through two mediating pathways: team efficacy and team learning behaviour. PS alone does not directly produce performance — it works by enabling teams to believe they can succeed and to learn from experience. Provides a cleaner causal model than earlier studies that treated the PS-performance link as direct.

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