Restaurant employees’ Thriving at Work: The Roles of Psychosocial Safety Climate and Self-Compassion

This study proposes thriving at work as a vehicle for promoting employees’ mental health and aims to investigate how restaurants’ commitment to employees’ mental health is translated into their experience of thriving and how the mechanisms vary upon employees’ self-compassion. Using the convenience sampling method, the 431 responses from full-service restaurant employees in the United States were recruited from Qualtrics. Structural equation modeling, bootstrapping analysis, and multi-group analysis were used to analyze the collected data. The results contribute to thriving literature by highlighting the role of a psychosocial safety climate as a triggering factor, employees’ psychological resource as an underlying mechanism, and the moderating effect of personal resources on the process of thriving at work.