Meta-analysis on impacts of role stress on employees' safety behavior:moderating effect of supervisor support

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.05.0079

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In order to clarify impact mechanism of role stress on employees' safety behavior, meta-analysis was used to analyze relationship between role stress (role conflict, role ambiguity and role overload), supervisor support and employees' safety behavior (safety task behavior and safety contextual behavior) by statistically integrating 37 independent samples from 35 empirical studies. Then, moderating effects of economic development levels and industry types were investigated. The results show that role conflict, role ambiguity and role overload negatively affect employees' safety behavior, among which role ambiguity has the greatest impact on it, and also a greater impact on safety contextual behavior than on safety task behavior. However, supervisor support positively affects such behavior, and plays a moderating role between role conflict, role ambiguity, role overload and safety task behavior, as well as between role ambiguity and safety contextual behavior respectively. Moreover, employees' safety behavior is more vulnerable to role stress in developing economies and high-risk industries than in mature economies and general industries.

Key words: role stress, employees' safety behavior, meta-analysis, supervisor support, role conflict, role ambiguity, role overload

CHEN Qiao, LIU Suxia, MEI Qiang, ZHANG Jingjing. Meta-analysis on impacts of role stress on employees' safety behavior:moderating effect of supervisor support[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2022, 32(5): 21-27.

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模型	文献数 k	效应值β	置信区间95%CI		标准化正态值 Z值双侧	异质性检验
模型	文献数 k	效应值β	下限	上限	标准化正态值 Z值双侧	自由度df	观察变异I²	加权方差Q值	P
固定	37	-0.221	-0.234	-0.209	-33.619	36	98.365	2 202.503	0.000
随机	37	-0.116	-0.225	-0.004	-2.021	36	98.365	2 202.503	0.000

变量		k	样本量n	β	标准误差	95%CI		I²
自变量	因变量	k	样本量n	β	标准误差	下限	上限	I²
角色冲突	安全任务行为	8	3 038	-0.220	0.032	-0.364	-0.065	94.447
角色冲突	安全情境行为	8	2 885	-0.317	0.042	-0.473	-0.142	95.824
角色模糊	安全任务行为	5	2 330	-0.260	0.053	-0.455	-0.042	96.285
角色模糊	安全情境行为	5	1 993	-0.433	0.164	-0.699	-0.062	98.668
角色超载	安全任务行为	5	1 631	-0.146	0.009	-0.241	-0.049	71.159
角色超载	安全情境行为	3	627	-0.037	0.014	-0.167	0.095	62.582
主管支持	安全任务行为	9	4 031	0.363	0.021	0.245	0.470	138.966
主管支持	安全情境行为	5	1 877	0.358	0.047	0.153	0.533	90.052

潜变量	类别	k	n	β	95%CI		双尾检验		异质性检验
潜变量	类别	k	n	β	下限	上限	Z值	p值	Q值	I²	p值
经济发展水平	发展中经济	7	3 293	-0.268	-0.299	-0.235	-15.683	0.000	115.741	94.816	0.000
经济发展水平	成熟经济	6	1 058	-0.145	-0.204	-0.085	-4.703	0.000	14.862	66.357	0.011
行业类型	一般行业	6	1 432	-0.163	-0.213	-0.112	-6.176	0.000	14.186	64.755	0.014
行业类型	高危行业	7	2 919	-0.275	-0.308	-0.241	-15.168	0.000	116.288	94.840	0.000