China Safety Science Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 25-31.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.12.2365

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Cross-level influence of safety climate on safety behavior from group perspective

WANG Dan, HE Yang   

  1. School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao Liaoning 125105, China
  • Received:2022-07-15 Revised:2022-10-14 Online:2022-12-28 Published:2023-06-28

Abstract:

In order to effectively promote construction workers' safety behavior and improve safety management level of the construction industry, based on social exchange theory and social cognition theory, a cross-level theoretical model of safety climate affecting individual safety behavior was constructed, and the cross-level mederating effect of group psychological capital and the cross-level moderating effect of group trust were tested. The data were collected by questionnaire survey. The survey subject were 448 construction workers (including team leaders and team members) in 68 construction teams. HLM method was used for empirical research. The results show that the safety climate of group layer is significantly and positively correlated with construction workers' safety behavior. Group psychological capital has a significant cross-level partial mediating effect between safety climate and construction worker's safety behavior. Group trust positively regulates the relationship between group psychological capital and construction workers' safety behavior. The safety climate of group level influences construction workers' safety behavior directly or indirectly through group psychological capital, and group trust can promote the process.

Key words: safety climate, safety behavior, cross-level influence, group psychological capital, group trust, construction workers, hierarchical linear model (HLM)