Psychological safety as a context-sensitive predictor of retention intentions: Gendered effects of supervisor support under caregiving-assumed conditions

Michi Yoshimura; Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0346791

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Psychological safety as a context-sensitive predictor of retention intentions: Gendered effects of supervisor support under caregiving-assumed conditions

Michi Yoshimura ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: yoshimura.michi@aichi-toho.ac.jp

Affiliation Faculty of Business Administration, Aichi Toho University, Nagoya, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1827-4902

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Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Comprehensive Psychology, Kyoto Tachibana University, Kyoto, Japan
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Psychological safety as a context-sensitive predictor of retention intentions: Gendered effects of supervisor support under caregiving-assumed conditions

Michi Yoshimura,
Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Published: April 6, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346791

About the Authors

Michi Yoshimura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: yoshimura.michi@aichi-toho.ac.jp

Affiliation Faculty of Business Administration, Aichi Toho University, Nagoya, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1827-4902

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Comprehensive Psychology, Kyoto Tachibana University, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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