조직 내 심리사회적 안전풍토, 적극적 행동 대처, 적응적 인지적 정서조절전략이 외상후 성장에 미치는 영향: 직장 내 괴롭힘을 경험한 근로자를 중심으로

This study examined the effects of psychosocial safety climate, individual proactive behavioral coping, and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies on psychological distress that appears after experiencing workplace bullying on post-traumatic growth. For the purpose of the study, a total of 179 adults who have experienced workplace bullying completed a research packet including the Workplace Bullying Victimization Scale, PostTraumatic Growth Scale, Psychosocial Safety Climate Scale, Proactive Behavioral Coping Scale, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategy Scale. and demographic variables. After deleting data which did not meet the criteria (i.e. people having workplace bullying experience more than once a week) or had missing, a total of 121 data were finally analyzed using structural equation modeling with SPSS 23.0 and Mplus 8. The results of this study were as follows. First, the direct effect of psychosocial safety climate on post-traumatic growth was found to be significant. Second, the direct effect of psychosocial safety climate on adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies was significant, and the indirect effect of psychosocial safety climate on adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies through proactive behavioral coping was also significant. Third, the direct effect of proactive behavioral coping on post-traumatic growth was significant, and the indirect effect of proactive behavioral coping on post-traumatic growth mediated by adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies was also significant. Fourth, a sequential mediation effect was observed, indicating that psychosocial safety climate increased the level of proactive behavioral coping, which in turn enhanced adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, ultimately leading to higher levels of post-traumatic growth. Based on the study results, the implications, limitations of the study and suggestions for the further studies were discussed.