Exploring Personal Factors That Might Influence the Vulnerability of Construction Employees to Occupational Psychological Disorders

Abstract

Personal factors could act as intervening variables between the causes and effects of psychological health conditions of employees. This study focused on six personal intervening factors that were associated with the risks of occupational psychological disorders namely: low self-esteem, negative personality trait, unproductive core beliefs, poor self-concept evaluation on performance, poor relationship with others and poor time management skills. An investigation on the level of severity of these personal intervening factors was conducted involving 150 construction professionals and 150 construction trade workers, who were purposively selected in Ghana. The personal factors that were found to be prevalent among the construction employees were low self-esteem and poor time management skills.

Factors Associated With Effective Implementation of Psychological Health Interventions in the Construction Industry

“…As a developing country, the atmosphere in Ghana appears to be a breeding ground conducive enough for psychological health problems. Inadequate resources and half-hearted interventions are some of the possible causes [35][36].…”

Exploring the Effects of Occupational Psychological Disorders on Construction Employees and the Construction Industry

“…The null hypothesis which assumes no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the two construction groups will be rejected and the alternative hypothesis that states otherwise will Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine be accepted for these items of coping strategies. However, the null hypothesis will not be rejected for the other factors that revealed no statistically significant differences and assumed equal variances for the two construction working groups [47]. Table 8.…”

“…If the p-value is less than or equal to 0.05, this means the difference in the mean values is statistically significant, and hence the null hypothesis will be rejected, and the alternative hypothesis considered. If the p-value is however greater than 0.05, the null hypothesis will not be rejected [47].…”

Exploring Construction Employees’ Perspectives on the Potential Causes of Psychological Health Conditions in the Construction Industry: A Study in Ghana

“…Abusive and over-demanding supervisors as a factor was rather ranked 1 st by the construction trade workers but 27 th by the construction professionals. The differences in the opinions of the two construction groups indicate that these construction work-related psychological factors could affect a construction employee at different degrees of severity based on underlining factors such as work trade, task level, type of role, pay differential, working experience and other demographic characteristics such as age, gender, and educational background (Fordjour, et. al., 2019b;Kollmann, et.…”