Study on interpersonal contagion effect of safety violation behaviors

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2021.08.004

Abstract

Abstract: In order to prevent occurrence of group safety violations, using social learning theory and social information processing theory,PSM method was used to analyze data of 1 294 employees from 25 provinces and municipalities in China. To examine whether there was human-to-human contagion effect of safety violations, and to explore whether there was heterogeneity among different types of enterprises and employees. The results show that interpersonal contagion effect widely exists in enterprises with different risk levels, staff size and ownership, as well as employees with different employment forms and gender. Specifically, a stronger interpersonal contagion effect was found in middle and small-sized enterprises, informal employees and female employees.

Key words: safety violation behaviors, interpersonal contagion, social learning, social information processing, propensity score matching(PSM), robust testing

CLC Number:

X915.2

LIU Lin, WU Jinnan, CHANG Zhipeng. Study on interpersonal contagion effect of safety violation behaviors[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2021, 31(8): 22-29.

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