ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1540820
The Impact of Leader Mindfulness in Communication on Employees' Psychological Safety
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Economics and Management, Taizhou Polytechnic College, Taizhou City, China
- 2School of Marxism, Taizhou Polytechnic College, Taizhou City, China
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The pressure faced by organizations is always broken down into specific tasks, which are transmitted to the grass-roots level through the communication between leaders and employees. Therefore, employees often experience heightened pressure and job insecurity, which reduces employees' psychological safety. Accordingly, how to stimulate employees' psychological safety has become an important issue. Based on the conservation of resources theory, this study explores the relationship between the leader mindfulness in communication and employees' psychological safety, and collects 458 questionnaires from employees of Chinese technology companies. The results indicate that the leader mindfulness in communication has a positive impact on employees' psychological safety.Leader empathy and interpersonal trust play a mediating role between the leader mindfulness in communication and employees' psychological safety. Employee mindfulness plays a positive moderating role among multiple variables. The study provides feasible suggestions to alleviate employees' psychological problems, enhance employees' psychological safety, create a harmonious and stable working environment, and improve organizational efficiency.
Keywords: Leader mindfulness in communication, Employees' psychological safety, leader empathy, interpersonal trust, Employee mindfulness
Received: 06 Dec 2024; Accepted: 25 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Wenli Xie, School of Marxism, Taizhou Polytechnic College, Taizhou City, China
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