Influence of Social Safety Capital on Safety Citizenship Behavior: The Mediation of Autonomous Safety Motivation

Junjie Zhang, Huaiyuan Zhai, Xiangcheng Meng, Wanxue Wang and Lei Zhou
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Junjie Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing 100044, China
Huaiyuan Zhai: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing 100044, China
Xiangcheng Meng: School of System Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Wanxue Wang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing 100044, China
Lei Zhou: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing 100044, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: In recent years, the safety issue of construction workers has become a research hotspot, and many researchers have achieved results in the impact of safety behavior regarding China’s construction industry. However, the existing research about the driving factors of safety citizenship behavior is insufficient. To fill this gap, this paper explores the driving factor of safety citizenship behavior from the perspective of social capital theory. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey, involving 311 Chinese construction workers, was conducted to verify the influence of Social Safety Capital on Safety Citizenship Behavior. The results showed that safety citizenship behavior made by workers was significantly related to social safety capital. Autonomous safety motivation mediated the relationships between social safety capital and safety citizenship behavior. Further, this research supports the differences between social safety capital and autonomous safety motivation. Specifically, the paper found that social safety capital had the largest regression coefficient for participation of suggestion-making, and autonomous safety motivation had the largest regression coefficient for the relationship between superior and subordinate by multiple regression analysis.

Keywords: safety citizenship behavior; social capital; motivation theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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