A Study of the Relationship Between Secure Base Leadership and School's Staff Happiness: Mediating Role of Psychological Safety

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between secure base leadership and schools’ staff happiness with mediating role of psychological safety. The method was descriptive-correlational one. The population was all of the staff (teachers and administrative staff) in Tehran public schools consisted of 373 were selected by multistage cluster sampling technique. In order to collect data, Edmondson''s psychological safety questionnaire (1999) and 2 researcher-made questionnaires of secure base leadership developed according to documents analysis of the results and interviews and happiness on the basis of Oxford (1990) have been used. Reliability of the questionnaires has been approved and the validity calculated by Cronbach''s alpha that were 0.81, 0.98 and 0.88 respectively. The result showed that there is a positive relationship between secure base leadership and psychological safety and staff happiness. The obtained experimental pattern from data analysis was fairly congruous with the conceptual model of the research.