China Safety Science Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (11): 14-22.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.11.2539

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Influence of job stress and burnout on unsafe behaviors of construction workers

ZHOU Jianliang(), HU Feixiang**(), XING Yandong, GAO Jiarui   

  1. School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology,Xuzhou Jiangsu 221116,China
  • Received:2022-06-06 Revised:2022-09-16 Online:2022-11-28 Published:2023-05-28
  • Contact: HU Feixiang

Abstract:

In order to deeply explore the relationship between job stress and burnout in unsafe behaviors of construction workers, firstly, based on the work characteristics of construction workers and literature research, individual safety cognition and team safety climate were selected as mediating variables. Psychological resilience, psychological detachment and psychological capital were introduced as moderating variables to model the hypothesis of the effects of job stress and burnout on construction workers' unsafe behaviors. Questionnaire research was conducted by drawing on mature psychological scales, using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0 for reliability and validity analysis, SEM and validation of research hypotheses, and Mplus 8.0 for modeling the moderating effects of psychological moderating variables. The results show that job stress and burnout contribute significantly to construction workers' unsafe behaviors, and job stress is positively correlated with burnout. Individual safety cognition and team safety climate have significant mediating effects between job stress-unsafe behaviors and burnout-unsafe behaviors. Psychological resilience significantly negatively regulates the relationship between job stress and unsafe behaviors, psychological detachment significantly negatively regulates the relationship between burnout and unsafe behavior, and psychological capital significantly negatively regulates the relationship between job stress and burnout, that is, psychological adjustment can effectively reduce the unsafe behavior tendency of workers. It is recommended that construction companies should combine psychological adjustment measures to prevent workers' unsafe behaviors by relieving work stress, reducing burnout, improving individual safety perceptions, and improving the safety atmosphere in the work group.

Key words: work stress, job burnout, construction workers, unsafe behavior, structural equation modeling (SEM)