Development of Workplace Emotional Health Scale

Workplace emotional health refers to employees’ emotional stability and ability to express their emotions, adapt to stressful events, and develop and maintain strong interpersonal relationships in the workplace. This study identified four factors, namely workload, emotional intelligence, emotional blackmail, and emotional labor, and integrated them into the concept of workplace emotional health to explore emotional health from a comprehensive perspective. This study also developed a workplace emotional health scale comprising four dimensions: emotional expression strategies, emotional awareness, interpersonal adaptation, and workload. For the formal scale, the overall internal consistency reliability was .813, and that of the subscales was .879, .897, .764, and .854, respectively. The factor loading for each item was .50 or above. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that, overall, the scale met the model fit test standards. The average variance extracted were between .470 and .671. The composite reliabilities were between .771 and .898. The square root of the average variance extracted were between .685 and .819. These results indicated that the proposed scale exhibited favorable reliability and validity. Finally, based on research results, this study proposed conclusions, suggestions for management practices, and directions for future studies. Research limitations in conducting this study were also explained.