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Jelinek L, Göritz AS, Miegel F, Schuurmans L, Moritz S, Yassari AH, Müller JC. Too much of a good thing? Hand hygiene and the long-term course of contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1279639. [PMID: 38524298 PMCID: PMC10959097 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1279639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024] Open
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Increased hygiene behavior may be a factor in the development of contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms (C-OCS). We aimed at investigating (1) the course of C-OCS over 1 year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) the effects of changes in hand hygiene (i.e., duration and frequency of handwashing) and related distress regulation on the long-term course of C-OCS. In a longitudinal study, we assessed 1,220 individuals from the German general population at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (t1), 3 months later (t2), and 12 months later (t3). Pre-pandemic data were available in a subsample from 2014 (n = 430). A decrease in C-OCS over the first year of the pandemic emerged with a small effect size. Thirty-six percent of the participants scored above the clinical cut-off score at t1, 31% at t2, and 27% at t3. In 2014, only 11% scored above the clinical cut-off score. Hierarchical regression showed that C-OCS at t1 was the strongest predictor of a long-term increase in C-OCS. With small effect sizes, change in the duration (not frequency) of handwashing from t1 to t2, as well as the distress-reducing effect of handwashing served as additional predictors. Implications for information on hand hygiene guidelines are discussed.
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- Lena Jelinek
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Behavioral Health Technology, University Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Chung HKS, Louie K, Chan WS. Development and evaluation of a Chinese short-form of the Sleep-related Behaviors Questionnaire in Hong Kong Chinese adults using item response theory. J Health Psychol 2024; 29:255-265. [PMID: 37688382 DOI: 10.1177/13591053231195518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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Insomnia-related safety behaviors are behaviors that aim to mitigate the negative consequences of insomnia but inadvertently perpetuate insomnia. This study aimed to develop and evaluate a Chinese short-form of the sleep-related behavior questionnaire (SRBQ-SF), a self-report measure of insomnia-related safety behaviors, using item response theory. The Chinese version of the original SRBQ was completed by 536 Chinese-speaking adults with clinically significant insomnia. The automatic item selection procedure of the Mokken scaling analysis was used to develop and evaluate the SRBQ-SF. A 23-item SRBQ-SF consisting of a 14-item reduced engagement and avoidance subscale (SRBQ-REA) and a 9-item preoccupation with sleep subscale (SRBQ-PS) was derived. Classical test theory-based estimates showed that the SRBQ-REA and SRBQ-PS had good internal consistency and acceptable convergent and discriminant validities, and they were only weakly correlated with each other. We recommend the use of the SRBQ-REA and SRBQ-PS separately to assess two dimensions of safety behaviors in the study and treatment of insomnia in Chinese-speaking adults.
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Ochoa Pacheco P, Coello-Montecel D, Andrei DM. Validation of the Spanish version of the Neal, Griffin and Hart safety behavior scale. Int J Occup Saf Ergon 2023; 29:1402-1415. [PMID: 36205518 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2022.2131277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2022]
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Objectives. The safety behavior scale (SBS), developed by Neal, Griffin and Hart, is one of the most widely used conceptualizations in the field of occupational safety. Previous studies have evaluated the psychometric properties of this scale in different populations. However, few validation studies have been conducted in the Latin American context. To fill these gaps in the literature, this study aimed to assess the validity, reliability and measurement invariance of this instrument in the context of the Latin American mining industry. Methods. Data were collected from 398 workers from Ecuadorian mining companies. The questionnaire was translated into Spanish following a back-translation process. The latent factorial structure of the SBS was explored by estimating a series of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory equation modeling (ESEM) models. Results. The analyses showed that the two correlated first-order factor CFA representation was the most appropriate model for the data. Measurement invariance by age, type of contract and firm size was also confirmed. Conclusions. The SBS is a valid and reliable measure of safety behavior. In addition, this study determined the applicability of this instrument in the Latin American context, which enhances opportunities for future research in the region.
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- Paola Ochoa Pacheco
- ESPAE Graduate School of Management, ESPOL Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
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- ESPAE Graduate School of Management, ESPOL Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
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Tsakiris P, Damalas CA, Koutroubas SD. Safety behavior in pesticide use among farmers of northern Greece: the role of information sources. Pest Manag Sci 2023; 79:4335-4342. [PMID: 37380619 DOI: 10.1002/ps.7632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Farmers' compliance with common safety practices in pesticide use (i.e., keeping records of pesticide applications, reading the information of pesticide labels, and taking protective measures during pesticide handling) and the use of information sources about pesticides were studied in a simple random sample of farmers in Evros Province, northern Greece. RESULTS According to the three common safety practices considered in the study, most farmers (56.9%) complied with safety practices. Nevertheless, a noticeable proportion of the farmers never kept records of pesticide applications (33.9%), never read the information of pesticide labels (20.2%), and never took protective measures during pesticide handling (24.8%). Farmers reported using up to six different sources of information about pesticides, but the majority (51.4%) reported using up to one source and almost one-third (33.9%) relied on own sources. The most common information source about pesticides was the staff of the agricultural supply stores, used by 88.1% of the farmers. Safety behavior was positively correlated with total sources of information (P < 0.01) and information by the agricultural supply stores (P < 0.01). Multiple regression analysis showed that safety behavior was reduced in females, whereas it was increased in farmers with high education, high number of plots, and high level of information sources. CONCLUSION Despite good levels of safety behavior by most farmers, keeping records of sprayings should be improved. Using multiple information sources about pesticides is crucial to improve safety behavior of farmers. © 2023 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Petros Tsakiris
- Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece
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- Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece
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- Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece
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De Baets L, Meulders A, Van Damme S, Caneiro JP, Matheve T. Understanding Discrepancies in a Person's Fear of Movement and Avoidance Behavior: A Guide for Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Clinicians Who Support People With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2023; 53:307–316. [PMID: 36884314 DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2023.11420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND: Generic self-report measures do not reflect the complexity of a person's pain-related behavior. Since variations in a person's fear of movement and avoidance behavior may arise from contextual and motivational factors, a person-centered evaluation is required-addressing the cognitions, emotions, motivation, and actual behavior of the person. CLINICAL QUESTION: Most musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinicians will recognize that different people with chronic pain have very different patterns of fear and avoidance behavior. However, an important remaining question for clinicians is "How can I identify and reconcile discrepancies in fear of movement and avoidance behavior observed in the same person, and adapt my management accordingly?" KEY RESULTS: We frame a clinical case of a patient with persistent low back pain to illustrate the key pieces of information that clinicians may consider in a person-centered evaluation (ie, patient interview, self-report measures, and behavioral assessment) when working with patients to manage fear of movement and avoidance behavior. CLINICAL APPLICATION: Understanding the discrepancies in a person's fear of movement and avoidance behavior is essential for musculoskeletal rehabilitation clinicians, as they work in partnership with patients to guide tailored approaches to changing behaviors. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2023;53(5):1-10. Epub: 9 March 2023. doi:10.2519/jospt.2023.11420.
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Brasseler M, Fink M, Mitschdörfer B, Reimann M, Skoda EM, Bäuerle A, Teufel M, Felderhoff-Müser U, Hüning B. Psychological Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Female Caregivers of Preterm versus Term Born Children. Children (Basel) 2023; 10:children10050787. [PMID: 37238335 DOI: 10.3390/children10050787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychological burden increased. Contact restrictions were predominantly stressful for families. Parenthood was reported to be especially challenging for parents of preterm children. MATERIAL AND METHODS a cross-sectional online-based survey on the psychological burden of parents of preterm and full-term born infants and toddlers during the second lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany was offered by social media, webpages, etc. Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2), COVID-19 Anxiety (C-19-A), COVID-19-related child protection behavior (PB) were used. RESULTS 2742 parents-predominantly females-took part in the study, 2025 parents of full-term and 717 parents of preterm born children. Female caregivers of full-term children reported significantly more depression symptoms than those of preterm children during the second lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. The PB correlated with increased COVID-19 anxiety as well as with increased generalized anxiety and depression symptoms. Female caregivers of preterm children showed significantly more protection behavior than those of full-term born children.
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- Maire Brasseler
- University Hospital Essen, Department of Paediatric I, Neonatology, Paediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Neurology, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
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- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Department of Paediatric I, Neonatology, Paediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Neurology, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Bunter Kreis, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
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- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Department of Paediatric I, Neonatology, Paediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Neurology, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Department of Paediatric I, Neonatology, Paediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Neurology, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Centre for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, C-TNBS, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
- Bunter Kreis, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany
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Mo J, Cui L, Wang R, Cui X. Proactive Personality and Construction Worker Safety Behavior: Safety Self-Efficacy and Team Member Exchange as Mediators and Safety-Specific Transformational Leadership as Moderators. Behav Sci (Basel) 2023; 13:bs13040337. [PMID: 37102851 PMCID: PMC10136060 DOI: 10.3390/bs13040337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023] Open
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Research on the correlation between personality traits and safety behaviors has been thoroughly explored in previous literature. However, most of these studies are based on explaining the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and safety behavior, with few explaining the relationship between proactive personality and safety behavior. This study relies on trait activation theory, social cognitive theory, and social exchange theory to understand the relationship between proactive personality and safety behavior (safety participation and safety compliance) by using safety self-efficacy and team member exchange as mediating variables and safety-specific transformational leadership as moderating variables. Method: Considering the issue of common method bias, a multi-source and multi-stage data collection research design was used to collect 287 valid questionnaires from construction workers in 10 construction projects and apply regression analysis for hypothesis testing. Conclusions: Research results indicated that proactive personality positively and significantly influenced construction workers' safety behaviors, while safety self-efficacy and team member exchange partially mediated the relationship between proactive personality and safety behaviors. In addition, safety-specific transformational leadership enhanced the positive relationship between proactive personality and safety behavior. These findings enrich the research on the correlation between personality traits and safety behaviors of construction workers in a safety context.
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- Junwen Mo
- Department of Engineering Management, School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- Department of Engineering Management, School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- Department of Engineering Management, School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- Department of Engineering Management, School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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Objectives. Safety behavior significantly affects safety performance in the workplace. This study aimed to develop a Bayesian network (BN) model for managing and improving safety behavior. Methods. This study was carried out in the chemical industries in Iran. The data were gathered by a questionnaire consisting of 13 variables including organization safety priority, systems design, safety communication, safety education, work strategy, human-system interaction, mental workload, environmental distractions, work pressure, fatigue, sleepiness, safety knowledge and locus of control. The BN structure was created using the fuzzy decision-making trial, evaluation laboratory method and expert opinions. Belief updating was used to determine variables with the strongest effect on safety behavior. Results. Locus of control, organization safety priority and safety knowledge were the best predictors of safety behavior. Moreover, it was found that improving organization safety priority and safety knowledge is the best intervention strategy to improve safety behavior significantly. Conclusions. BN is a powerful tool that can model causal relationships among variables. Improving organization safety priority and safety knowledge can lead to the maximum possible level of safety behavior.
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- Occupational Health and Safety Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- School of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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Yu DG, Du Y, Chen J, Song W, Zhou T. A Correlation Analysis between Undergraduate Students' Safety Behaviors in the Laboratory and Their Learning Efficiencies. Behav Sci (Basel) 2023; 13. [PMID: 36829356 DOI: 10.3390/bs13020127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 01/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Students' behaviors have a close relationship with their learning efficiencies, particularly about professional knowledge. Different types of behaviors should have different influences. Disclosing the special relationship between undergraduate students' conscious safety behaviors in their laboratory experiments with their learning efficiencies is important for fostering them into professional talents. In this study, a course entitled "Advanced Methods of Materials Characterization" was arranged to contain three sections: theoretical learning in the classroom, eight characterization experiments in the laboratory in sequence, and self-training to apply the knowledge. In the final examination, eighteen percent was allocated to the examination questions about safety issues. The students' scores for this section were associated with their total roll scores. Two quantitative relationships are disclosed. One is between the students' final examination score (y) and their subjective consciousness of safety behaviors (x) in their laboratory experiments, as y = 5.56 + 4.83 x (R = 0.9192). The other is between their grade point average (y) and safety behavior evaluation (x) as y = 0.51 + 0.15 x (R = 0.7296). Undergraduate students' behaviors in scientific laboratories need to be verified to have a close and positive relationship with their professional knowledge learning efficiencies. This offers a hint that improving students' safety behaviors and enhancing their subjective safety awareness are conducive to improving their learning efficiency for professional knowledge.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the behavior and lifestyle of individuals in response to the coronavirus that the safety behavior of people in the coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic. Hence, the study integrates the theory of planned behavior and the health belief model to understand the behavioral change in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The current study is qualitative therefore, a survey-based online questionnaire was used for data collection from university students and staff (faculty and nonfaculty) residing in top-tier cities of Pakistan, nonprobability convenient sampling was used to approach the audience. A two-stage approach was used to test the model using partial least square (variance-based structural equation modeling). The reliability and validity of the measurement model indicate that the data is reliable and valid. Outcomes prove all the relationships as proposed by the study, except for the impact of perceived barriers on intention and individual safety behavior. Perceived barriers act as obstacles that abstain individuals from following the standard operating procedures. The research agenda provides new insights into the fields of marketing, health care, consumer behavior, and behavioral studies. It contributes to the existing literature in the field of social marketing by studying the behavior and changes in the behavior of people in the global pandemic.
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- Ruqia Khan
- Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
- Internet Innovation Research Center, Newhuadu Business School, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- Department of Management, Sunway University Business School, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
- Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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- Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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von Beesten S, Bresges A. Effectiveness of road safety prevention in schools. Front Psychol 2022; 13:1046403. [PMID: 36605279 PMCID: PMC9808381 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1046403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The World Health Organization estimates that each year, 1.3 million people are killed and more than 50 million people worldwide are injured in road traffic accidents. According to a study conducted by the Allianz Center for Technology, more young people between the ages of 15 and 29 die in traffic accidents than as a result of illness, drugs, suicide, violence, or war events worldwide. That is about 400,000 per year, globally. Worldwide traffic accident prevention campaigns demonstrate the consequences of traffic accidents in an emotionalizing way in order to encourage drivers to adopt conscious safety behavior via adequate driving behavior. The consequences of traffic accidents are demonstrated by prevention campaigns often in an emotionalizing way to encourage drivers to adopt safety measurements through adequate driving behavior. Prior research suggests that the emotionalizing effect of the appeals must be accompanied by solution- as well as action-oriented and self-confidence-increasing measures, so that the instructive message is reinforced and does not lead to reactance. Thus, a strong need arose in the schools for a targeted training as the follow-up of emotional prevention campaigns. A suitable training for knowledge acquisition and knowledge transfer into everyday life was developed by means of the design-based research method. To create the targeted follow-up, various methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and common traffic safety programs were adapted. This publication is dedicated to a first explorative research approach in a non-standardized form of a social training. It approaches the question of negative emotional states immediately after a Crash Kurs NRW stage event, which is a prevention program in Germany that targets upper middle school and high school courses and originates from North Rhine-Westphalia. Changes in social behavior and development of participants' own norms, values, and attitudes were observed and documented and are discussed and presented in this article. The result of the survey confirmed prior research and showed visible effects of reactance after the Crash Curs NRW campaign. It was found that a structured follow-up training is suitable to gain reactive behavior from the stage event. Knowledge deficits about the cause and outcome of accidents were successfully addressed in the follow-up. This may have influence the reactance behavior and could be a key factor for successful prevention campaigns. Further publications will observe the connection between knowledge and reactance in subsequent iterative passes of modified follow-ups for the Crash Course NRW Campaign.
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Liu Y, Teng W, Chen C, Zou G. Correlation of safety behavior, handover quality, and risk perception: A cross-sectional study among Chinese psychiatric nurses. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:1043553. [PMID: 36601526 PMCID: PMC9806171 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1043553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background Nurses' safety behaviors played an important role in patients' safety goal realization, and it varies from person to person. However, less research has explored the safety behavior level of psychiatric nurses and its influencing factors. Thus, this research aimed to assess the level of safety behavior and explore whether risk perception mediated the relationship between handover quality and safety behavior among psychiatric nurses. Methods A total of 186 registered psychiatric nurses in a Chinese hospital were recruited for this study, through the convenience sampling method. Handover quality, risk perception, and safety behavior were measured. Hayes' PROCESS macro was used to evaluate the mediation of risk perception between handover quality and safety behavior. Results Scores of psychiatric nurses' safety behaviors were (47.98 ± 7.45), and handover quality and risk perception could predict the variance of nurses' safety behaviors. Risk perception could partially mediate between handover quality and nurses' safety behaviors, and the value of the mediating effect was 49.17%. Conclusion Psychiatric nurses' safety behaviors have a large promotion space. Therefore, healthcare professionals should endeavor to improve the handover quality of psychiatric nurses and decrease their risk perception, thereby promoting nurses' safety behaviors.
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- Yakun Liu
- Department of Healthcare Respiratory, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Psychiatric, Shandong Mental Health Center, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Psychiatric, Shandong Mental Health Center, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Department of Psychiatric, Shandong Mental Health Center, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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Kim BJ, Kim MJ, Lee J. The influence of corporate social responsibility on safety behavior: The importance of psychological safety and the authentic leadership. Front Public Health 2022; 10:1090404. [PMID: 36530700 PMCID: PMC9748560 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1090404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Considering the importance of safety behavior, the current study investigates the relationship between CSR and safety behavior. To be specific, we delve into the underlying mechanism and its contingent factor of the association. This paper proposes that CSR promotes employee safety behavior through the mediation of psychological safety. In addition, authentic leadership may function as a positive moderator that amplifies the positive effect of CSR on psychological safety. Utilizing 3-wave time-lagged survey data from 213 South Korean workers, the current study empirically tests the hypotheses by establishing a moderated mediation model by utilizing structural equation modeling. The results demonstrate that CSR enhances employees' safety behavior by increasing their psychological safety and that authentic leadership positively moderates the relationship between CSR and psychological safety. This research's findings have meaningful theoretical and practical implications.
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- Byung-Jik Kim
- College of Business, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea,Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- School of Industrial Management, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan, South Chungcheong, South Korea,*Correspondence: Min-Jik Kim
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- Department of Industrial Security, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea,Julak Lee
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Yang L, Bashiru Danwana S, Issahaku FLY, Matloob S, Zhu J. Investigating the Effects of Personality on the Safety Behavior of Gold Mine Workers: A Moderated Mediation Approach. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:16054. [PMID: 36498127 PMCID: PMC9736175 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192316054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 11/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Based on prior research on the relationship between personality and safety behavior, we construct a moderated mediation model that tests the effects of each of the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism) on the safety behavior of gold miners in Ghana. The model included safety competency as a mediator between the five personality traits and safety behavior. Management commitment to safety was used as a moderator to test the strength of the mediation of safety competency. Data was collected from 344 individuals employed across six large-scale gold mining companies in Ghana using a questionnaire survey. Amos 26 was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis. The hypotheses were tested using Hayes PROCESS macros models 4 and 7 on SPSS 26. Findings show that openness and extraversion have an insignificant direct influence on safety behavior. Neuroticism negatively affects safety behavior. In contrast, conscientiousness and agreeableness positively affect safety behavior. Mediation analysis revealed that safety competency partially mediates the relationships between (1) conscientiousness and safety behavior and (2) agreeableness and safety behavior. The relationship between extraversion and safety behavior is fully mediated by safety competency. Additionally, we discovered that management safety commitment has a significant conditional indirect effect (Index of moderated mediation = 0.168 95% CI = [0.122;0.222]) on the relationship between conscientiousness and safety behavior through safety competency. Management safety commitment also significantly moderated (Index of moderated mediation = 0.075 95% CI = [0.021;0.120]) the relationship between agreeableness and safety behavior through safety competency.
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- Li Yang
- School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
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Li Y, Gao J, Qian C, Wu X. The Mediation Role of Safety Attitude in the Impact of Resilience on the Safety Behavior of Coal Miners in China. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:15164. [PMID: 36429880 PMCID: PMC9690718 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192215164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Resilience can improve the adaptability of coal miners to high-hazard and high-stress environments. After facing setbacks or adversities, resilience can enable coal miners to recover from bad mental states and have an optimistic safety attitude and positive safety behaviors. However, how resilience affects safety behavior and the role of safety attitude in the relationship have not been clear. This study systematically reviewed previous research on resilience, safety attitude, and safety behavior. By recovering 639 valid questionnaires, the validity and reliability of the resilience scale, safety attitude scale, and safety behavior scale for coal miners were verified. Hierarchical regression analysis explored the relationships between resilience, safety attitude, and safety behavior. Studies have shown that resilience positively affects safety attitude and safe behavior. Safety attitude positively affects safety behaviors and plays a role as a partial mediator in the impact of resilience on safe behavior. The theoretical contribution is that the resilience of miners has a positive impact on safety behavior. Moreover, resilience can also act on safety behaviors through the partial intermediation of safety attitude. The practical contribution is that managers of coal mining companies can promote the resilience and safety attitude of coal miners to improve safety behaviors and prevent accidents.
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- Yuanlong Li
- School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
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- China Academy of Safety Science and Technology, Beijing 100012, China
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- Institute of Urban Safety and Environmental Science, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100054, China
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- School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
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Di H, Ali S, Lu Y. Defining the Primary Work Stress Factors of Chinese Coal Miners-A Mixed-Methods Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:14593. [PMID: 36361472 PMCID: PMC9656464 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192114593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Studies have indicated that coal miners in China have higher levels of perceived job stress. However, few studies have investigated the work stress structure of coal miners. OBJECTIVE Our study focused on the work stress of coal miners in China, with a primary aim to determine the work stress structure of coal miners in China using a mixed-methods approach. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were performed with thirty-three people (team leaders and frontline coal miners) conducted with participants from various state-owned large- and medium-sized coal mines in China. Grounded theory was used to construct an initial model for the concept of coal miners' work stress. Using the results of this initial survey and findings in the existing literature, we then constructed a preliminary questionnaire regarding coal miners' work stress and administered the questionnaire to 900 coal miners in the Shaanxi, Henan, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu provinces. RESULTS The results show that the work stress structure for coal miners differs from that for other occupational types in China, due to differences in the Chinese culture and foreign cultural influences. We revised our questionnaire based on these considerations and administered a new survey to the frontline production workers in coal mines. The preliminary questionnaires were revised and analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, resulting in a final formal model for work stress, which was supported by content and structural validity. CONCLUSION In this research, we used the framework of grounded theory to conduct an empirical analysis of the structure model of coal miners' work stress. The findings support that the primary work stress factors of Chinese coal miners included the stress of the work environment, job responsibility, interpersonal relationships, career development, the family environment, and organizational systems. Coal enterprises should therefore always take these factors into consideration when developing and implementing safety management policies aimed at to improve the occupational health status of coal miners.
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- Hongxi Di
- School of Management, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
- School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, China
- Energy Economy and Management Research Center, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
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- School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, China
- Department of Banking and Finance, Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Mirpur 10250, AJK, Pakistan
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- School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, China
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Zhou M, Chen X, He L, Ouedraogo FAK. Dual-Attitude Decision-Making Processes of Construction Worker Safety Behaviors: A Simulation-Based Approach. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:14413. [PMID: 36361289 PMCID: PMC9659298 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192114413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Revised: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Workplace accidents are of great concern in the construction industry. Most of those accidents are caused by unsafe behavior in the workplace. Many previous studies have analyzed the causes of workers' unsafe behaviors, but few have investigated workers' feelings of insecurity from the perspective of systematic psychological theory. This study developed an attitude-behavior-intervention feedback loop mechanism of construction workers and used the dual-attitude theory to explain the occurrence mechanisms of unsafe behavior. Using this mechanism, an active-intervention system-dynamics model and a passive-intervention system-dynamics model were designed and simulated. The coefficient of the system dynamics equation in the simulation model involved meta-analysis to combine the correlation coefficients of existing studies, which increased the sample size and improved the statistical test efficiency. The results show that an implicit safety attitude has a more significant impact on safety behavior, and the effect of an active intervention is stronger than that of a passive intervention. Based on these results, this paper presents some feasible suggestions to reduce the probability of unsafe worker behaviors occurring.
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- Man Zhou
- School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
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- School of Public Administration, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
- Center for Social Stability Risk Assessment, Central South University, Changsha 410017, China
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Liu Z, Geng N, Yu Z. Does a Traceability System Help to Regulate Pig Farm Households' Veterinary Drug Use Behavior? Evidence from Pig Farms in China. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:11879. [PMID: 36231180 PMCID: PMC9564818 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191911879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 09/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In China, there is a renewed interest in traceability systems as an efficient tool to guarantee pork safety. One of the pathways through which a traceability system can benefit consumers is by easing information asymmetry. However, past literature on the traceability system in China pays more attention to theoretical analysis and less to empirical analysis. Using a large-scale survey of pig farms in China, we investigate the effects influencing farmers' participation in the traceability system. Findings show that a traceability system can influence the safety of pork indirectly through its impacts on farmers' production behaviors. Another important finding is that unsafe pork is a result of non-standard use of veterinary drugs, and the traceability system works well for farmers by pushing them to take stricter safety measurements.
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- Zengjin Liu
- Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201403, China
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- School of Public Administration, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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- School of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
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Niu L, Xia W, Qiao Y. The Influence of Leader Bottom-Line Mentality on Miners' Safety Behavior: A Moderated Parallel Mediation Model Based on the Dual-System Theory. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:11791. [PMID: 36142064 PMCID: PMC9517175 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191811791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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As a high-risk industry that is always struggling with unsafe factors, coal mine enterprises must prioritize safety in their operation and management, but there are still some short-sighted coal mine managers who choose to leave safety behind in the desperate pursuit of financial benefits, resulting in coal mine accidents from time to time. Unfortunately, this leadership style, known as leader bottom-line mentality, has not yet received sufficient attention in the safety field. Based on dual-system theory, this study aimed to explore the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and safety consciousness between leader bottom-line mentality and miners' safety behavior, as well as the moderating role of Chinese traditionality. Using a sample of 422 frontline miners in China, the results of the data analysis showed that emotional exhaustion and safety consciousness played parallel mediating roles between leader bottom-line mentality and miners' safety behavior, and Chinese traditionality moderated the effect of leader bottom-line mentality: the higher the Chinese traditionality, the weaker the mediating effect of emotional exhaustion and the stronger the mediating effect of safety consciousness. Present research explains the mechanisms and boundaries of the influence of leader bottom-line mentality on miners' safety behavior, contributing to the emerging literature on safety management and bottom-line mentality.
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Ning X, Huang J, Wu C, Liu T, Wang C. The Double-Edged Sword of Safety Training for Safety Behavior: The Critical Role of Psychological Factors during COVID-19. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:10951. [PMID: 36078668 PMCID: PMC9518423 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191710951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Safety training (ST) is the primary means of avoiding unsafe behaviors, but it has not achieved the expected impact on improving workplace safety because of the high psychological stress it brings to workers. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) further threatens workers' psychological conditions, thereby diminishing the effectiveness of ST. However, the existing literature has mainly laid emphasis on the bright side of ST and neglected examining its impact on safety behavior (SB) from detrimental psychological factors. Drawing from the conservation of resources theory, a novel two-staged model was established to understand how these psychological factors mediate and moderate the association between ST and SB. We incorporated resource consumption (e.g., role overload (RO) and COVID-19-related task setbacks) and resource generation (e.g., psychological resilience) into the model to consider both detrimental and protective psychological factors against ST. We then implemented a time-separated, three-wave data collection on a sample of frontline workers to validate this hypothetical model. Consistent with our hypothesis, RO played a significant mediating role between ST and SB, that is, ST leads to RO, and in turn, holds up SB. Surprisingly, contrary to our hypothesis, COVID-19-related task setbacks weakened the negative and indirect impact of ST on SB via RO. This is one of the first empirical studies to highlight how detrimental psychological factors caused by ST constrict or amplify SB. In practice, the efficacy of ST can be enhanced by cultivating psychological resilience and clarifying employees' job responsibilities to reduce the ambiguity of roles.
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- Xin Ning
- School of Investment and Construction Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian 116025, China
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- School of Investment and Construction Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian 116025, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Emergency Support Simulation Technologies for City Operations, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Investment and Construction Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian 116025, China
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- Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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Zhao L, Yang D, Liu S, Nkrumah ENK. The Effect of Safety Leadership on Safety Participation of Employee: A Meta-Analysis. Front Psychol 2022; 13:827694. [PMID: 35783799 PMCID: PMC9246271 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.827694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recently, the promotion of safety participation (SP) has become a hot spot in behavioral safety research and safety management practice. To explore the relationship between safety leadership (SL) and SP, a theoretical model was established and 33 articles (35 independent samples) on work safety from 2000 to 2021 were selected for a meta-analysis. By evaluating the impact of SL, which incorporates transformational, transactional, and passive leadership styles, on work safety. The results show that SL has a positive impact on both safety climate (SC) and SP. Both safety transactional leadership (STAL) and safety transformational leadership (STFL) positively impact SP, and the impact of STFL is greater, while safety passive leadership (SPL) has no impact on SP. The study establishes that SC plays a partial mediating role between transformational SL and employee SP. Under the condition of a developed economic level or high-risk industry, SL indicated a greater influence on SP. Hence, it is recommended that when enhancing the SP of employees, the influence of the macro environment and SC should not be undermined.
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- School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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Yuan X, Li Y, Xu Y, Yang H. Teacher Support Matters: The Effect of Self-Control Demands on Safety Behavior of Vocational High School Students in China. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:7220. [PMID: 35742471 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19127220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The safety behavior of vocational school students is worth noting. The current study is aimed to examine the effect of self-control demands on safety behavior. Drawing on the Self-Control Resource Model, we predict that self-control demands have a negative effect on safety behavior through ego depletion and perceived teacher support moderates the link among self-control demands, ego depletion, and safety behavior. A two-wave survey was conducted and 285 vocational students participated in our study. Mediation and moderated mediation modeling analyses were carried out. Results showed that ego depletion fully mediated the link between self-control demands and safety behavior. Moreover, perceived teacher support moderated the relationship between self-control demands, ego depletion and safety behavior; for students who perceived high levels of teacher support, the negative effect of self-control demands on safety behavior via ego depletion was insignificant, while for students who perceived low levels of teacher support, their negative effect was significant. The present study clarifies the effects of self-control demands on safety behavior through the resource depletion process and highlights the importance of teacher support in buffering the negative effect of self-control demands on workplace safety. Enhancing safety management, engaging in a resource recovery activity, and providing teacher support training are effective ways to maintain high levels of workplace safety.
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Wang D, Wang L, Wei S, Yu P, Sun H, Jiang X, Hu Y. Effects of Authoritarian Leadership on Employees' Safety Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model. Front Public Health 2022; 10:846842. [PMID: 35655454 PMCID: PMC9152152 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.846842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Safety behavior is one of the focal concerns to occupational health researchers and safety managers. This study examined the relationship between authoritarian leadership and safety behavior based on social exchange theory and locus of control theory, and further explored the mediating role of trust in leadership and the moderating role of locus of control. In this study, a total of 636 employees from petroleum enterprises were recruited, with random sampling used to collect data in two stages. The result showed that: (1) Authoritarian leadership is significantly and negatively related to employees' safety compliance behavior and safety participation behavior. (2) Trust in leadership plays a partially mediating role in the impact of authoritarian leadership on employees' safety compliance behavior and safety participation behavior. (3) Locus of control moderates the first half of the pathway through which authoritarian leadership affects employees' safety behavior through trust in leadership. For externals, the negative effect of authoritarian leadership on their trust in leadership is stronger, which in turn decreases their safety compliance behavior and safety participation behavior.
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- Dawei Wang
- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- School of Education Science, Kashi University, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Kashgar Xinjiang, China
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
- School of Teacher Education, Taishan College, Tai'an, China
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- Shengli Petroleum Engineering Yellow River Drilling Corporation, Dongying, China
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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Benecke AV, Schmidt KL, Dinse H, Schweda A, Jahre L, Fink M, Weismüller B, Dörrie N, Welsner M, Skoda EM, Bäuerle A, Musche V, Teufel M. Increased Safety Behavior and COVID-19-Related Fear in Adults with Cystic Fibrosis during the Pandemic. Healthcare (Basel) 2022; 10:858. [PMID: 35627996 PMCID: PMC9142094 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10050858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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People with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) face great challenges during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Recent research found equal levels of distress in pwCF and healthy controls (HC). The current study aimed to investigate the mental health burden and safety behavior in pwCF. Sixty-nine adult pwCF and sixty-nine propensity-score-matched HC participated in this study. Participants completed an anonymous online questionnaire assessing distress, generalized anxiety, depressive symptoms, COVID-19-related variables, self-reported adherent safety behavior (ASB), and dysfunctional safety behavior (DSB). PwCF showed equal amounts of distress (W = 2481.0, p = 0.669), depressive symptoms (W = 2632.5, p = 0.268), and generalized anxiety symptoms (W = 2515.5, p = 0.565) compared to the HC. COVID-19-related fear (W = 1872.0, p = 0.028), ASB (W = 1630.0, p = 0.001), and DSB (W = 1498.5, p < 0.001) were significantly elevated in pwCF. The pwCF estimated that the probability of suffering from symptoms (W = 954.5, p < 0.001), experiencing a severe course (W = 806.5, p < 0.001), or dying (W = 1079.0, p < 0.001) from COVID-19 is significantly higher than that of the HC. ASB was associated with a CF diagnosis, COVID-19-related fear, and a subjective level of information (R2 = 0.414, F(13, 124) = 6.936, p ≤ 0.001). DSB was associated with a diagnosis of CF and COVID-19-related fear (R2 = 0.196, F(13, 124) = 3.169, p ≤ 0.001). The data suggest that pwCF show functional and adequate behaviors towards the risk caused by the pandemic. Therefore, functional coping behaviors may provide advantages in addressing pandemic challenges.
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- Anke-Verena Benecke
- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital Essen—Ruhrlandklinik, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany;
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany; (A.-V.B.); (H.D.); (A.S.); (L.J.); (M.F.); (B.W.); (N.D.); (E.-M.S.); (A.B.); (V.M.); (M.T.)
- Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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Liu H, Du Y, Zhou H. The Impact of Job Burnout on Employees' Safety Behavior Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Psychological Contract. Front Psychol 2022; 13:618877. [PMID: 35282238 PMCID: PMC8907840 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.618877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Employee safety behavior is critical for occupational health in work environments threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the widespread and increasingly serious job burnout of employees is a complex and difficult problem for enterprises to handle during any epidemic. Therefore, it is helpful to identify and discuss job burnout and other main psychological factors that affect safety behavior to find appropriate solutions. Using the PLS-SEM method, the study explored the relationship between job burnout and safety behavior against the epidemic, as well as the mediating role of psychological contract. According to the local guidelines for controlling COVID-19, this study revised the safety behavior scale. Data were collected by structured questionnaires in May to July 2020 from Chinese employees (N = 353) who resumed their work after the outbreak of the pandemic. The findings confirmed that job burnout has a negative impact on safety behavior, and psychological contract play a partial mediating role in mitigating the negative impact. Specifically, the transaction dimension and relationship dimension of psychological contract negatively affected safety behavior while the development dimension of the psychological contract was not directly related to safety behavior. It is suggested that enterprises should take effective measures to reduce employees' job burnout and implement flexible psychological contract management and intervention, so as to effectively improve the performance of work safety behavior. Based on the multidimensional model, the findings of this study shed light on promoting safety behavior to prevent the spread of epidemics.
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- Hui Liu
- Institute for Human Resource Management, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute for Human Resource Management, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China
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Gorday JY, Bardeen JR. Problematic Smartphone Use Influences the Relationship Between Experiential Avoidance and Anxiety. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2022; 25:72-76. [PMID: 34652220 DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2021.0062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Experiential avoidance (EA), an unwillingness to stay in contact with unwanted inner experiences (e.g., emotions, thoughts, and bodily sensations), has been implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety. Individuals with high levels of EA are more likely to employ maladaptive coping strategies (i.e., avoidance behaviors), which exacerbates emotional distress and anxious arousal. As smartphone ownership has become increasingly common in recent years, problematic smartphone use (PSU) has been suggested to serve as a "safety behavior" in situations in which individuals believe that they might experience emotional discomfort. That is, individuals experiencing emotional distress and/or anxious arousal may overengage in the use of technology to relieve emotional distress. As such, the purpose of this study was to examine PSU as a moderator of the relationship between EA and anxiety. Adult participants (N = 294) recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online labor market, completed an online battery of self-reported measures. Results indicated that the relationship between EA and anxiety became significantly stronger as PSU increased, thereby suggesting that PSU may exacerbate the effect of EA on anxiety. These findings are a first step toward the development of risk profiles that incorporate EA and PSU. Such risk profiles may be beneficial for early identification and intervention for individuals at high risk for the development of anxiety.
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- Julia Y Gorday
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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Teng Y, Sun Y, Yang H, Guo X, Chen X. Research on the relationship between enterprise safety production management mode and employees' safety behavior based on social cognition and behavior incentive theory. Int J Occup Saf Ergon 2021; 28:2676-2685. [PMID: 34952563 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2021.2022957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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AbstractThe realization of high-performance production safety needs not only a scientific and reasonable production safety management mode, but also active participation of employees with safety initiative (SI). Based on Social Cognition Theory and Behavior Motivation Theory, the study establishes a research model of the production safety management mode and safety behavior. Based on the survey data of 467 employees from 91 enterprises, and the Structural Equation Model is used for empirical verification. The findings show that three safety production management modes of punishment, regulation and guidance will affect the level of employees' SI, and then affect safety behavior. SI acts as an intermediary variable between safety production management mode and safety behavior. The transformation of enterprise safety production management mode from punishment to regulation, and then to guidance is conducive to encouraging employees to implement initiative safety behavior (ISB), reducing passive safety behavior (PSB), and improving enterprise safety management performance.
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- Yun Teng
- School of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030.,Postdoctoral research station of agricultural and forestry economic management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030
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- School of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030
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- School of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030
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- School of economics and management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030
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- School of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030
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Mirakzadeh AA, Karamian F, Khosravi E, Parvin F. Analysis of Preventive Behaviors of Rural Tourism Hosts in the Face of COVID-19 Pandemic: Application of Health Belief Model. Front Public Health 2021; 9:793173. [PMID: 35004596 PMCID: PMC8733247 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.793173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the most severe public health crises in recent history. Therefore, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and its negative effects on the health of rural tourist hosts and the rural community, it is necessary to pay attention to the conservation and health behaviors of rural tourist hosts. This study was conducted with the purpose of analyzing preventive behaviors of rural tourism hosts in the face of COVID-19 pandemic with the application of the health belief model (HBM) that is one of the most widely used models to study behavior to prevent and control diseases. In this study, all 80 tourism hosts of tourism target villages in Kermanshah province (the west of Iran), were studied as study population. A questionnaire was used to collect data which its validity and reliability were confirmed. Structural equation modeling (SEM) using Smart PLS software was used to analyze the data. The results of SEM indicated that perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, self- efficacy, perceived benefits, and cues to action accounted for 56% of the variance of "COVID-19 preventive health behavior" among the hosts of rural tourists in Kermanshah province. Moreover, the perceived susceptibility was the strongest predictor of preventive health behavior, while perceived barriers were not significant on behavior. Therefore, planning based on the HBM with emphasis on increasing awareness to improve and modify the health behavior of rural tourist hosts is recommended.
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- Ali Asghar Mirakzadeh
- Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Agriculture Extension and Education, Agricultural College, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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Ji L, Liu W, Zhang Y. Research on the Tournament Incentive Mechanism of the Safety Behavior for Construction Workers: Considering Multiple Heterogeneity. Front Psychol 2021; 12:796295. [PMID: 34966339 PMCID: PMC8710510 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.796295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The unsafe behavior of construction workers is one of the most important and direct causes of safety accidents. Managers usually develop effective incentives aimed at regulating worker safety behavior. Due to the large number of workers in construction projects, there are multiple differences in fairness preference, risk preference and ability level, which will lead to the complex effect of the traditional mechanism to regulate workers' safety behavior. In order to improve the effectiveness of incentive measures for worker safety behavior, this paper takes into account the multiple differences of individual workers' fairness preference, risk preference and ability level, based on the tournament mechanism to construct a competition incentive model. By designing a tournament reward and salary distribution for heterogeneous workers, the occurrence of unsafe behaviors can be reduced. The study found that in terms of the optimal level of safety investment, workers with risk aversion attitude generally invest higher than that of workers with risk preference, no matter whether they have a strong fairness preference or not; In terms of the distribution of tournament rewards, workers with a risk aversion attitude and a higher level of fairness preference need to be given higher incentives.
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- School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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Zhang X, Sun Z, Niu Z, Sun Y, Wang D. The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Safety Behaviour: A Moderated Mediation Model. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18:12124. [PMID: 34831880 PMCID: PMC8624752 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182212124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Leadership behavior has an impact on the behavior of employees. Previous studies have mainly studied the impact of positive leadership behaviors on employees' behaviors, but there is an absence of research on the impact of negative leadership behaviours (abusive supervision) on safety behaviours (including safety participation and safety compliance). In this study, 599 front-line employees in the petrochemical industry were selected as subjects. Abusive supervision, safety behaviour, safety motivation and a conscientiousness questionnaire were used as measurements to explore the relationship between abusive supervision and employee safety behaviors, and to further explore the roles of safety motivation, conscientiousness and the relationship between them. This study found that abusive supervision is negatively related to employee safety behaviours (safety compliance and safety participation); that safety motivation plays a mediating role in the relationship between abusive supervision and employees' safety behavior; and that conscientiousness moderates the role of safety motivation between the relationship of abusive supervision and employees' safety behaviour. With a higher level of conscientiousness, the indirect relationship between abusive supervision and employee safety behaviours is weaker. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and practical significance of these findings for abusive supervision and the management of safety behaviours.
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- Xinyong Zhang
- Department of Applied Psychology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, China;
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250300, China; (Z.S.); (Z.N.); (Y.S.)
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250300, China; (Z.S.); (Z.N.); (Y.S.)
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250300, China; (Z.S.); (Z.N.); (Y.S.)
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250300, China; (Z.S.); (Z.N.); (Y.S.)
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Yovi EY, Abbas D, Takahashi T. Safety climate and risk perception of forestry workers: a case study of motor-manual tree felling in Indonesia. Int J Occup Saf Ergon 2021; 28:2193-2201. [PMID: 34581248 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2021.1986306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Timber harvesting processes, especially motor-manual felling, are hazardous to forestry workers' health and safety. The purpose of this study is to examine forestry workers' mental safety models (at the supervisor and operator levels) using the Nordic safety climate questionnaire. This study also examines how operators and their families perceive workplace risks (dread and unknown risk factors). The safety climate analysis revealed that supervisors misunderstand management safety priority, competence, empowerment and justice. Additionally, this study found that operators do not yet prioritize safety. There was a lack of safety communication and operators' skepticism about the current safety system. These findings highlight the critical importance of implementing safety measures into operators' work environments. The risk perception analysis revealed that family members had a greater risk aversion to dread risk factors than operators. As a result, we see a possibility for family members to act as safety-net figures, bolstering the operators' safety values.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, American University, USA
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- School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
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Ghasemi F, Zarei H, Babamiri M, Kalatpour O. Fatigue profile among petrochemical firefighters and its relationship with safety behavior: the moderating and mediating roles of perceived safety climate. Int J Occup Saf Ergon 2021; 28:1822-1828. [PMID: 34042558 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2021.1935142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The present study aimed to investigate fatigue among firefighters and its relationship with their safety behavior. The moderation and mediation effects of perceived safety climate on this relationship were also investigated. Firefighters from 10 petrochemical companies in Iran were investigated. Moderation analysis was performed based on hierarchical regression analyses and mediation effects were studied using structural equation modeling. A total number of 261 firefighters participated in this study. The mean scores of general fatigue, physical fatigue, reduced activity, reduced motivation and mental fatigue were 10.5, 9.0, 8.2, 7.6 and 8.7, respectively. Fatigue had a negative significant effect on firefighters' safety behavior. Perceived safety climate had a mediation but not moderation effect on the relationship between fatigue and safety behavior of firefighters. Generally, the fatigue level among firefighters was fairly low, but had a significant negative effect on firefighter's safety behavior. Perceived safety climate can mediate such a negative effect.
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- Fakhradin Ghasemi
- Department of Ergonomics and Occupational Health and Safety Research Center, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- School of Public Health, Junbdishpur University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Ergonomics and Research Center for Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Occupational Health and Safety Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety Research Center, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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Abri M, Vosoughi S, Abolghasemi J, Rahimi J, Ebrahimi H. The effect of job security on safety behavior with the moderating role of salary: a structural equation model. Int J Occup Saf Ergon 2021; 28:1732-1737. [PMID: 33982640 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2021.1929697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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This study aimed to model the relationship between job security and safety behavior with the moderating role of salary on the workers of the construction project of Qom (Iran) Subway. After determining the subjects of the study, the questionnaires on safety behavior and job security were completed by subjects. Also, the salary of the subjects was determined. Structural equation modeling used smart partial least squares software. The results revealed that job security had a direct and significant correlation with safety compliance, safety participation and safety behavior (p < 0.001). The salary as a moderator had a positive and significant effect on the relationship between job security and safety behavior (p < 0.05). Generally, it can be deduced that job security had a positive impact on safe behaviors, and the salary as a moderator enhanced this impact. To improve safety behavior in the workplace, employers should increase the job security of workers.
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- Mohammad Abri
- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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Berni I, Menouni A, Zegzouti YF, Kestemont MP, Godderis L, El Jaafari S. MAROCOVID: Snapshot Monitoring of Knowledge and Perceptions of Safety Behaviors during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Morocco. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18:ijerph18115745. [PMID: 34071889 PMCID: PMC8198599 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18115745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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To assess whether knowledge, attitude, and perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic predicted changes in behaviors among the general Moroccan population, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted between 30 March and 20 April involving a total of 14,157 participants. The statistical analysis of the data included univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Our results suggest that less than ten days after the Moroccan government announced "Health state of Emergency" response to the COVID-19 outbreak, public knowledge, attitude and responses to the pandemic were relatively high. More than half the respondents (63.2%) reported that they complied with more than five of nine recommended safety measures, including avoiding going out (93.2%), and frequent handwashing with soap and water (78.2%). Factors associated with an increased likelihood to adopt safety measures included perceptions that COVID-19 was a human health risk, the pandemic will continue for a long time, availability of clear information, and a lack of medicine. The largest predictor of safety behavior change was age; participants older than 55 were more likely to adopt recommended safety behaviors. Although knowledge and perception among the general public was reasonable, more encouragement from government via health education programs is needed to maintain appropriate behaviors.
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- Imane Berni
- Cluster of Competency “Health and Environment”, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes 50000, Morocco; (Y.F.Z.); (S.E.J.)
- Correspondence: (I.B.); (A.M.)
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- Cluster of Competency “Health and Environment”, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes 50000, Morocco; (Y.F.Z.); (S.E.J.)
- Environment and Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;
- Correspondence: (I.B.); (A.M.)
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- Cluster of Competency “Health and Environment”, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes 50000, Morocco; (Y.F.Z.); (S.E.J.)
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- Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;
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- Environment and Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;
- IDEWE, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
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- Cluster of Competency “Health and Environment”, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes 50000, Morocco; (Y.F.Z.); (S.E.J.)
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Musche V, Kohler H, Bäuerle A, Schweda A, Weismüller B, Fink M, Schadendorf T, Robitzsch A, Dörrie N, Tan S, Teufel M, Skoda EM. COVID-19-Related Fear, Risk Perception, and Safety Behavior in Individuals with Diabetes. Healthcare (Basel) 2021; 9:480. [PMID: 33919519 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9040480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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(1) The aim of the study is to assess the psychological burden of individuals with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic in comparison to matched controls. (2) Over the course of eight weeks, 9 April to 3 June 2020, 253 individuals with diabetes and 253 matched controls, using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), participated in this cross-sectional study. Participants completed an anonymous survey including demographics, depressive symptoms (PHQ-2), generalized anxiety (GAD-7), COVID-19-related fear, risk perception, and safety behavior. (3) While patients with diabetes expected their risk of infection similar to controls, they reported a higher probability of the occurrence of symptoms, severe course, and dying of COVID-19. Patients with diabetes showed no elevated generalized anxiety or depressive symptoms. However, they reported higher COVID-19-related fear and more adherent and dysfunctional safety behavior compared to controls. (4) From a public health view, it seems encouraging that despite the somatic risk condition, generalized anxiety and depression are not higher in patients with diabetes than in controls. Patients with diabetes report higher COVID-19-related fear, increased risk perception, and behavioral changes. This suggests that individuals with diabetes, as a significant risk group of severe COVID-19, show an adequate perception and functional reaction to the current pandemic.
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Job demands are viewed as the physical, psychological and social effects of the physical and mental efforts required by the job on the employee, while job resources refer to the gains and opportunities that reduce these effects, support employee development and help him/her achieve successful results. The aim of this study is to explain the effects of job demands and job resources perceived by cabin crew members on their safety behavior. To this end, using the qualitative research method, the data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with 14 cabin crew members in a medium-sized airline business in Turkey. The findings were presented under four themes: 'working conditions', 'factors related to cabin crew members', 'passenger behaviors' and 'purser attitudes'. In conclusion, various recommendations are made for airline management by comparing the findings with those reported in the related literature.
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- Çetin Yelgin
- Department of Aviation Management, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Turkey
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- Department of Aviation Management, Eskişehir Technical University, Turkey
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Kohler H, Bäuerle A, Schweda A, Weismüller B, Fink M, Musche V, Robitzsch A, Pfeiffer C, Benecke AV, Dörrie N, Führer D, Taube C, Rassaf T, Teufel M, Skoda EM. Increased COVID-19-related fear and subjective risk perception regarding COVID-19 affects behavior in individuals with internal high-risk diseases. J Prim Care Community Health 2021; 12:2150132721996898. [PMID: 33719697 PMCID: PMC8851367 DOI: 10.1177/2150132721996898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Since December 2019, the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has been keeping the world in suspense. Proven risk factors for a severe course of COVID-19 are common diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular or respiratory disorders. Until today, little is known about the psychological burden of individuals suffering from these high-risk diseases regard to COVID-19. The aim of the study was to define the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on behavior and mental health in individuals at high risk for developing a severe COVID-19 course. Items assessed generalized anxiety (GAD-7), COVID-19-related fear, adherent/dysfunctional safety behavior, and the subjective risk perception of regarding symptoms, having a severe course and dying because of COVID-19. Data were compared between participants with the high risk diseases and individuals without any of those diseases. 16,983 respondents completed the study. Generalized anxiety, COVID-19-related fear, adherent/dysfunctional safety behavior and subjective risk perception were elevated in participants with high-risk diseases. The increased COVID-19-related fear as a functional concern is a conclusion on the increased risk of a severe course. The functionality of the fear is reflected in people’s increased need for security and includes an increase in both adherent and dysfunctional safety behavior that underlines the need for psychological support strategies.
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- University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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Škerlič S, Erčulj V. The Impact of Financial and Non-Financial Work Incentives on the Safety Behavior of Heavy Truck Drivers. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18:2759. [PMID: 33803170 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18052759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The goal of the research is to determine how compensation affects the safety behavior of truck drivers and consequently the frequency of traffic accidents. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on a sample of 220 truck drivers in international road transport in the EU, where the results of the Structural Equation Model (SEM) show that in the current state of the transport sector, financial and non-financial incentives have a positive impact on the work and safety behavior of drivers. Financial incentives also have an impact on drivers' increased perception of their driving ability, while moving violations continue to have a major impact on the number of accidents. The proposed improvements enable decision-makers at the highest level to adopt legal solutions to help manage the issues that have been affecting the industry from a work, social and safety point of view for the past several years. The results of the research therefore represent an important guideline for improvements to the legislature as well as in the systematization of truck driver compensation within companies.
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Weismüller B, Schweda A, Dörrie N, Musche V, Fink M, Kohler H, Skoda EM, Teufel M, Bäuerle A. Different Correlates of COVID-19-Related Adherent and Dysfunctional Safety Behavior. Front Public Health 2021; 8:625664. [PMID: 33520924 PMCID: PMC7838460 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.625664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Introduction: Safety behaviors are key elements in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 virus, but have also assumed excessive proportions in form of panic buying groceries. This raises the question whether these behaviors are independent or related to each other. Adherent safety behavior including increased hygiene and physical distancing appears inherently adherent and prosocial, while dysfunctional safety behavior such as panic buying most probably emerges from other motives and contextual variables. Methods: Data from 15,308 participants collected from March 10 to May 4, 2020, during the COVID-19 acute period in Germany, was analyzed to assess whether adherent and dysfunctional safety behavior are predicted by the same or divergent variables. Two multiple regression models are presented including various sociodemographic, trait, attitudinal, and COVID-19-specific variables as predictors. Results: Some variables similarly predict both, adherent and dysfunctional safety behavior. Yet, adherent safety behavior is stronger predicted by COVID-19-related fear than generalized anxiety, while a trend toward a reverse pattern emerged for dysfunctional safety behavior. Adherent safety behavior was also related to higher trust in governmental actions to face COVID-19, subjective level of information, as well as use of public media and TV to remain informed on COVID-19. Higher age was related to dysfunctional, but not adherent safety behavior. Respondents living in rural communities report more adherent safety behavior than urban dwellers. Discussion: Divergent psychological variables underlie adherent and dysfunctional safety behavior. This hints toward a theoretical separation with practical relevance in behavioral engineering and public health campaigning.
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Background: Social anxiety has been associated with higher levels of and more problematic marijuana use. Research suggests that safety behaviors may play a role in the development and maintenance of marijuana problems. However, the safety behaviors that are most commonly associated with social anxiety have not been investigated, nor has the potential moderating role of gender on this relationship. Method: A diverse sample of regular marijuana users (N = 279) completed measures of social anxiety, safety behaviors related to social situations, and marijuana use problems. Results: Social anxiety and safety behavior use were both positively correlated with marijuana use problems. These relationships were stronger in men than in women. Among men only, tendencies to use safety behaviors to cope with social situations accounted for the relationship between social anxiety symptoms and marijuana-related problems. Discussion: The avoidant coping style that characterizes safety behaviors in social anxiety may also underlie problematic patterns of marijuana use, particularly for men. The present study is the first to report an association between safety behaviors in social situations and marijuana use problems and suggests the importance of examining the effect of reducing safety behaviors in social situations, in regular marijuana users with comorbid social anxiety.
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- Nora E Mueller
- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Fargnoli M, Lombardi M. NOSACQ-50 for Safety Climate Assessment in Agricultural Activities: A Case Study in Central Italy. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E9177. [PMID: 33302581 PMCID: PMC7764403 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17249177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Safety climate assessment has been recognized as a powerful tool to bring to light workers' perceptions related to safety practices, attitudes and behaviors at the workplace. Accordingly, its investigation can provide useful information about safety problems within a company before accidents occur. In literature, numerous studies can be found investigating safety climates in different types of industry. However, safety climate assessment in agricultural activities is addressed scarcely, even though agriculture represents a very hazardous sector. To reduce this gap, the present study proposes an investigation of safety climate among farmers by means of the Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50). The results of the survey brought to light a low level of safety perception of the interviewed sample, especially as concerns safety commitment and risk-taking attitudes. In particular, a different attitude toward safety issues has been registered depending on both the position and gender of the interviewed farmers. Overall, the output of this cross-sectional analysis adds to the current literature by expanding knowledge of safety climate among farmers, representing a baseline for further investigations based on human-centered approaches to enhance safety in agriculture and consequently social and workplace aspects of sustainable agricultural systems.
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- Mario Fargnoli
- Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment (DICMA), Sapienza-University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy;
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Ni G, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Qiao Y, Li H, Xu N, Deng Y, Yuan Z, Wang W. Influencing Mechanism of Job Satisfaction on Safety Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on Chinese Context: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Safety Knowledge Sharing. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E8361. [PMID: 33198114 PMCID: PMC7697761 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17228361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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China's construction industry developed rapidly and safety production has become a vital issue. Improving the safety behavior of construction workers is an important measure to effectively decrease construction safety accidents. At present, a New Generation of Construction Workers (NGCWs) born after 1980 has gradually become the main force of construction companies in China and the special group characteristics coming from the intergenerational difference may make them behave differently in safety-related activities, therefore, it is very important to study how to promote their safety behavior. This paper aimed to explore the influencing mechanism of job satisfaction on the safety behavior of NGCWs and examine the mediating role of safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis were applied to test the theoretical model. Empirical research results indicated that job satisfaction can effectively promote safety behavior through safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Safety knowledge sharing plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety compliance behavior, as well as between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior. Moreover, work engagement plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior, which can provide valuable management references for China's construction companies to strengthen their safety behavior.
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- Guodong Ni
- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
- Research Center for Digitalized Construction and Knowledge Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
- Research Center for Digitalized Construction and Knowledge Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
- Research Center for Digitalized Construction and Knowledge Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
- Research Center for Digitalized Construction and Knowledge Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
- Research Center for Digitalized Construction and Knowledge Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- School of Mechanics & Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; (Y.Z.); (Z.Z.); (Y.Q.); (H.L.); (N.X.); (Y.D.); (Z.Y.); (W.W.)
- Research Center for Digitalized Construction and Knowledge Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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Jung M, Lim S, Chi S. Impact of Work Environment and Occupational Stress on Safety Behavior of Individual Construction Workers. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E8304. [PMID: 33182704 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17228304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This study was conducted to investigate how the work environment and psychological state influence construction workers’ perceptions and safety behaviors. Structural equation modeling was developed with five factors on the working environment (i.e., job demand, job control, job support, rewards, organizational justice, lack of reward), two factors on workers’ psychological condition (i.e., depression and trait anxiety), and four factors on safety perception (i.e., safety motivation, safety knowledge, and safety compliance and participation behaviors). Sample data were collected from 399 construction workers working at 29 construction sites in South Korea and analyzed the direct and indirect effects between those factors. The results showed that construction workers’ safety compliance and participation behavior are related to their safety knowledge and motivation, and depression and trait anxiety were found to lower safety motivation, knowledge, and, eventually, safety behavior. Job demands, lack of job control, lack of reward, and lack of organizational justice negatively impacted safety behavior. In contrast, job support did not show a significant relationship with safety behavior.
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Sinelnikov S, Bixler EA, Kolosh A. Effectiveness of safety training interventions for supervisors: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Am J Ind Med 2020; 63:878-901. [PMID: 32740998 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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A wealth of research demonstrates that work unit supervisors serve a critical function in protecting the safety and health of workers. A systematic review examined the effectiveness of workplace safety training interventions intended for various supervisor populations published from 2000 to 2019. A search of seven electronic databases was supplemented with hand searches from the reference lists of identified publications, relevant scientific journals, and the gray literature. This review included an assessment of the methodological quality using a modified version of the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. A total of 22 peer-reviewed studies met a set of inclusion criteria and were subsequently assessed for methodological quality. Training interventions were grouped into five topical domains: ergonomics, leadership, supervisor-worker interaction, injury, and disability management, and general safety education. Consistent evidence was found for the effectiveness of supervisory training interventions across several outcome measures. To our knowledge, this is the first study to synthesize the literature on supervisory training interventions in the area of occupational safety. While the results are encouraging, they must be viewed with caution due to the fact that the methodological rigor of the reviewed studies was low.
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Du Y, Liu H. Analysis of the Influence of Psychological Contract on Employee Safety Behaviors against COVID-19. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E6747. [PMID: 32947955 PMCID: PMC7557612 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17186747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2020] [Revised: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This study explored the influencing factors of safety behavior from the perspective of employees, studied the mechanism of the psychological contract on employees' safety behavior in the context of the Chinese epidemic situation, tested the mediating role of job burnout and perceived insider status in the process of work resumption, and provided preventive suggestions for combating the global spread of COVID-19. A questionnaire survey was utilized to collect data and, combined with the necessary protective measures taken for employees in China, was used to modify the mature safety behavior scale. Finally, through the analysis of 402 employees' questionnaires, the hypotheses were verified; that is, in the process of Chinese enterprises returning to work to cope with COVID-19, the psychological contract has a positive role in promoting employees' safety behavior, while job burnout plays a weakened mediating role, and perceived insider status plays a strengthening mediating role. The psychological contract negatively affects job burnout but positively affects perceived insider status. Job burnout negatively affects employees' safety behavior, but perceived insider status positively affects employees' safety behavior. The results show that employees' conscious participation in safety behavior plays an irreplaceable role in the prevention of COVID-19 and safety of work resumption.
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- Yuexin Du
- Department of Human Resource Management, School of Business Administration, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang, China;
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- Institute of Human Resource Management, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang, China
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Objective. This study aimed to research the impact that a coal mine lighting environment has on human safety behavior in an underground coal mine. Methods. We built a coal mine lighting simulation experiment system including both general lighting and local lighting divided into six different illumination gradients (0, 10, 30, 50, 75 and 100 lx) to test and analyze the effects of general illumination gradients on human fatigue, attention, reaction and eye-hand coordination with SPSS version 22.0. Results. Illuminance has a significant effect on human fatigue, attention, reaction ability and eye-hand coordination ability. Specifically, human fatigue is negatively correlated and the other indicators are positively correlated with the increase of illuminance. Notably, attention distribution ability seems to be most significantly influenced by illuminance according to this study, followed by human fatigue, reaction and eye-hand coordination ability. Conclusion. The results of the study indicate that illumination of the general lighting environment is expected to be controlled at a gradient of at least 50-75 lx or above in the coal mine environment where there is both general lighting and local lighting to reduce the incidence of accidents.
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- Jing Li
- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
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Mazzetti G, Valente E, Guglielmi D, Vignoli M. Safety Doesn't Happen by Accident: A Longitudinal Investigation on the Antecedents of Safety Behavior. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:ijerph17124332. [PMID: 32560433 PMCID: PMC7345533 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17124332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Research recognizes the shared perceptions of the priority attributed to safety in comparison to other organizational goals (i.e., safety climate) as a potential antecedent of safety behavior among construction workers. This type of climate can dismantle barriers to the promotion of effective strategies to mitigate workplace hazards. On the other hand, the current understanding of the underlying process that links the perception of a safety climate to the implementation of safety behavior is far from being exhaustive. Accordingly, this study aimed to explore the role of risk perception and safety knowledge in explaining the positive impact of safety climate before attending a training course (Time 0) and safety behavior after the training completion (Time 1). Data were collected at two time-points on a sample of N = 278 construction workers taking part in different safety training courses promoted by a vocational training organization in Northern Italy. The hypothesized relationships were tested using a serial mediation model bootstrapping approach. The obtained results indicated that the perception of a safety climate at Time 0 (T0) among construction workers is associated with higher risk perception and safety knowledge that, in turn, resulted in a higher implementation of safety behavior at Time 1 (T1). These findings contribute to the understanding of those factors that constitute a fertile ground for preventing injuries and accidents in the construction sector.
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- Greta Mazzetti
- Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (E.V.); (D.G.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-051-2091622
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- Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (E.V.); (D.G.)
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- Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (E.V.); (D.G.)
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy;
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Background Helmets prevent head trauma in both all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and bicycle crashes. This pilot study’s objective was to compare family helmet use and participant attitudes regarding helmets for ATVs versus bicycles. Methods A convenience sampling of adults attending a 2017 university-sponsored health fair who had at least one child < 18 years living at home were surveyed. Demographics, frequency of helmet use, and information about factors influencing helmet use were collected. Descriptive (frequencies) and bivariate (Fisher’s exact test) analyses were performed. Qualitative themes of written responses were also examined. Results Subjects (N = 98) were 26–57 years old (mean 40 years). Three-quarters (76%) were female. The percentage always wearing a helmet riding bicycles was 63% (subjects), 58% (spouses/partners), and 51% (children), compared to 11, 14 and 37% on ATVs, respectively. Moreover, the percentage never wearing a helmet while on an ATV was 68% for subjects, 71% for spouses, and 47% for children. Despite helmet use differences between bicycles and ATVs, the importance of children wearing a helmet on these vehicles was rated highly and equally important, 9.28 and 9.58 on a 1–10 scale, respectively. Higher proportions of subjects’ oldest children wore a bike helmet 100% of the time if at least one parent always wore a helmet (81%), compared to children whose parents both wore helmets < 100% of the time or didn’t ride (21%) (p < 0.0001). The proportion of children wearing ATV and bicycle helmets less than 100% of the time was significantly higher if parents reported barriers to effectively enforcing helmet use than if they did not (p = 0.04 and p = 0.004, respectively). Many reported a “strict no helmet, no bike/ATV riding rule” as being most effective in getting their children to always wear a helmet. Conclusions This study is the first to explore family helmet use while riding bicycles vs ATVs. Although parent’s belief in the importance of helmet use was high for both, helmet use was greater when riding bicycles. Further research is needed to better understand the social and environmental influences that shape parental helmet attitudes and practices in order to improve safety interventions for increasing pediatric helmet use.
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- Cole Wymore
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
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- Injury Prevention and Community Outreach Program, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
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- Pediatric Trauma Program, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. .,Department of Pediatrics, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
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Ropaka M, Nikolaou D, Yannis G. Investigation of traffic and safety behavior of pedestrians while texting or web-surfing. Traffic Inj Prev 2020; 21:389-394. [PMID: 32500788 DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2020.1770741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Objective: More and more pedestrians use mobile phones in their daily traffic activities by the roadside or even when crossing the street. The objective of this research is to examine pedestrians' traffic and safety behavior while texting or web-surfing, when crossing signalized intersections.Methods: In order to compare the behavior of distracted and non-distracted pedestrians, an experimental process through video recording was carried out in real road conditions, in three signalized intersections in the center of Athens in Greece. Demographic and behavioral characteristics were observed, including use of mobile device. For the statistical analysis, two multiple linear regression models were developed to investigate the association of pedestrians' speed and distraction caused by mobile phone use. Additionally, binary logistic regression models were developed in order to determine the influence of distraction on pedestrians' safety characteristics and more specifically on near misses with oncoming vehicles.Results: Observers recorded crossing behaviors for 2,280 pedestrians and noticed that nearly one-fifth (16.6%) of them performed a phone-distracting activity while crossing. Distractions included texting or web-surfing (6.3%), listening to music (5.4%) and using a handheld phone (4.9%). Τhis research indicated that distraction caused by texting or web-surfing had a negative impact on pedestrians' main traffic and safety characteristics. Results pointed out that in high pedestrian traffic, distracted pedestrians who were texting or web-surfing on their mobile phone present lower speed than non-distracted pedestrians, regardless of their age, as they may be not aware of traffic conditions due to distraction and therefore, they have higher crossing times. Furthermore, their probability of a near miss increases with increasing pedestrian volume as the more pedestrians who occupy the pedestrian crossing the more difficult is for them to observe carefully the rest traffic.Conclusions: Mobile phones are integral to contemporary daily life and their use and penetration is increasing rapidly as well. For this reason, it is crucial to investigate the impacts of distracted walking on pedestrians' traffic and safety behavior. Various measures and strategies should be implemented and further research should be conducted as texting and web-surfing distraction is associated with a rather high risk.
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- Marilia Ropaka
- Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Peng L, Chan AHS. Exerting Explanatory Accounts of Safety Behavior of Older Construction Workers within the Theory of Planned Behavior. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019; 16:ijerph16183342. [PMID: 31510087 PMCID: PMC6766067 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16183342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Older construction workers are vulnerable to accident risks at work. Work behavior affects the occurrence of accidents at construction sites. This study aims to investigate the organizational and personal factors that underlie the safety behaviors of older construction workers considering their age-related characteristics. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey, which involves 260 older construction workers (aged 50 and over), was conducted, and an integrative old-construction-worker safety behavior model (OSBM) was established on the basis of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Results showed that the OSBM provides a considerably good explanation of the safety behaviors of older construction workers. The explained variances for safety participation and compliance are 74.2% and 63.1%, respectively. Subjective norms and perceived behavioral control are two critical psychological drivers that proximally affect the safety behaviors of workers. Moreover, safety knowledge, management commitment, and aging expectation are the distal antecedents that significantly influence psychological drivers. This study proves the mediating role of psychological factors on predicting safety behaviors among older construction workers, thereby promoting an understanding of "how" and "why" their safety behaviors occur. Furthermore, the identified effects of several critical organizational and personal factors, particularly age-related factors, provide new insights into the safety behaviors of older construction workers.
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- Lu Peng
- Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong.
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- Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong.
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