Development and Validation of Emotional Intelligence Safety Leadership Scale to Promote Emotional Intelligence Safety Culture

The purpose of this study is to provide basic data that can be used as objective data to help form an emotional safety culture by developing measurement tools that can measure emotional safety leadership for workers in the industrial field.To achieve this purpose, a survey was conducted on 700 industrial workers in 17 cities and provinces, and statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS 22.0, AMOS 18.0, and Excel for validity testing.The results of this study are summarized as follows.First, the Emotional Safety Leadership Scale consists of a total of 32 items and seven components: contribution, self-management, safety motivation, social awareness, empathy, self-awareness, and social management.Second, it consisted of ten questions for contribution, five questions for self-management, four questions for safety motivation, four questions for social awareness, three questions for empathy, three questions for self-awareness, and 3 questions for social management.The reliability level was more than .60,confirming the validity and reliability of the Emotional Safety Leadership Scale.Therefore, the development of the scale of emotional safety leadership is expected to contribute to the improvement of psychological safety and safety of organizational members by laying the foundation for the development and application of customized education programs through diagnosis of emotional safety leadership competencies.This scale can therefore be effectively utilized in education, programs, and counseling for leaders in industrial settings.