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

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.

Research on the Relationship Between Safety Leadership, Safety Attitude and Safety Citizenship Behavior of Railway Employees

“…The results show that safety awareness and SCB are positively correlated, and a simple and far regression model is established to further analyze the correlation between the two concepts. Zhang [70] studied the impact of social security capital on SCB and the intermediary role of independent security motivation, focusing on the process of internal psychological change brought by external changes; this is very meaningful. In particular, this study investigated railway employees of a railway station in China, whose stable management structure provided convenience for this study to ensure there were no great changes during the study period.…”

Assessment of the effects of supervisor behaviour, safety motivation and perceived job insecurity on underground miner’s safety citizenship behaviour

“…To measure the SCB of miners, 12-items were adapted from the safety citizenship behaviour scale developed by Meng et al (2019) and used by J. Zhang et al (2020). The safety citizenship behaviour scale contained variables such as mutual aid among the workers, the relationship between supervisors and subordinates, suggestion-making and self-control.…”

“…In the work of J. Zhang et al (2020), the SCB scale further had a combined and acceptable Cronbach's alpha value of 0.745. In our current study, the safety citizenship behaviour scale yielded a Cronbach's alpha (a) of 0.920 and a construct reliability (CR) value of 0.924 and is even better than the original reliability value of Meng et al (2019).…”

“…Furthermore, these interactions can trigger safety motivation (J. Zhang et al , 2020), and safety motivation can enhance employees’ safety citizenship behaviour (Lixin Jiang and Probst, 2016). Additionally, employees who engage in non-mandatory activities like safety citizenship behaviour to improve workplace safety would trust their organizations to provide them with job security (Niesen et al , 2014).…”

Current States and Future Trends in Safety Research of Construction Personnel: A Quantitative Analysis Based on Social Network Approach

“…The construction industry is plagued by a high level of occupational risks and has been recognized as a hazardous industry in which fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries frequently occur [1][2][3][4]. For instance, 11.7 out of every 100,000 construction workers in the United States suffered fatal injuries in large-scale construction projects in 2018 [5].…”