Type A behavior pattern, accident optimism and fatalism: an investigation into non-compliance with safety work behaviors among hospital nurses

Ugwu, Fabian O.; Onyishi, Ike E.; Ugwu, Chidi; Onyishi, Charity N.

doi:10.1080/10803548.2015.1085165

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“…From research perspectives, scholars have studied behavioral compliance issues mainly from the perspectives of employees, employers, and regulatory agencies [ 6 , 7 , 8 ]. In terms of research content, scholars have mainly studied the impact of three levels of factors—personal characteristics of employees, manager characteristics, and organizational characteristics—on the safety behavioral compliance [ 9 , 10 ]. From the perspective of research methods, there are more qualitative research methods in the literature related to improving employees’ behavioral compliance, and a few studies have used expert scoring methods for simple quantitative analysis [ 11 , 12 ].…”

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The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

Wang

2021

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The effective improvement of employee behavioral compliance and safety performance is an important subject related to the sustainable development of the construction industry. Based on data from a Chinese company (n = 290), this study used a partial least squares-structural equation model to clarify the relationship among safety participation, job competence, and behavioral compliance. Empirical analysis found that: (1) safety participation had a significant positive impact on employees’ behavioral compliance; and (2) job competence played a partial mediating role between safety participation and behavioral compliance. By selecting two new perspectives of safety participation and job competence, this study derived new factors affecting behavioral compliance, constructed a new theory about safety management, and conducted an in-depth discussion on improving behavioral compliance theoretically. Practically, the research put forward a new decision-making model, deconstructed the mechanism between safety participation and behavioral compliance, and provided new guiding strategies for improving employee behavioral compliance.

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The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

Wang

2021

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“…Optimism in its general concept can improve occupational health and safety and the patient's safety. Based on studies of other researchers optimism, as an important factor of psychological capital (23), led to increase in self-esteem (24), had positive impact on resiliency and flexibility of people (19), indirectly affect the safety climate (25), is associated with mental health (26), has a positive effect on job satisfaction and organizational commitment (27), is correlated with organizational successfulness (28), leading to better fitting of individuals with their workplace (29), rises the organizational happiness (20), and eventually affect unsafe behaviors in workplace (30).…”

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Relationship Between Optimism with Extra Role Behaviors and Occupational Accidents: A Case Study Among Nurses and Nursing Aids Working in Two Hospitals in Qom City, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study

Khandan

Arab

Saadat

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Jentashapir J Health Res

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Background: Several factors are involved in occupational accidents such as individual and environmental factors. Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) and optimism are useful in the prediction of organizational behaviors as well as in the prediction of organizational virtuousness and job performance. Objectives: The present study aimed to evaluate the relationship among optimism, extra role behaviors or OCB, and occupational accident in working nurses and nursing aids at two hospitals in Qom, Iran, 2017. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in two hospitals and was carried out among 177 nurses and nursing aids (response rate = 88.5%). The instruments used included demographic, optimism and OCB questionnaires. A forward-backward technique was applied for OCB face validity assessment. SPSS V. 20 software was used to analyze data by Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, t-test, ANOVA, and Poisson regression. Results: A total of 40.6% of participants have experienced cases of occupational accidents. OCB's mean score was 62.15 (± 12.61). Average score of optimism was 10.51 (± 2.60). Based on Mann-Whitney results, optimism was different between men and women (P = 0.004) and men had a higher level of optimism. Nursing aids experienced lower occupational accident (52.4%) than nurses with the BSc degree. Shift workers had experienced lower occupational accident (34.3%) than day workers. In addition, each unit increasing in optimism score was led to 6% increasing in the occupational accidents rate. Conclusions: According to the obtained results, the implementation of adjustment programs and reducing the load of mental and physical work as well as improving the nurse's organizational behaviors would be necessary. In addition, sufficient training to improve the nurses' attitude toward safety is recommended.

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“…While factors for safety compliance behaviour exist in the literature, so also do factors for non-compliance behaviour. Ugwu et al (2015) stated that personality type A, accident optimism and fatalism relate to non-compliance with safety behaviour.…”

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Perceived Implications of Non-Compliance with Safety Practices in Construction Projects: Construction Professionals’ Awareness Level

Ijaola

Omolayo

Akerele

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Despite the numerous implications of non-compliance with safety practices in construction projects, there are still reports of a low level of compliance with safety rules on construction sites. The study seeks to investigate the awareness level on the implications of non-compliance with safety practices among professionals in construction projects. From the existing literature, two major types of implications namely; direct and indirect cost implications of non-compliance with safety rule were investigated. Questionnaires were used to elicit information from respondents. A hypothesis that examines the differences in the level of awareness on the implications of non-compliance with safety practices among construction professionals was postulated. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to test the hypothesis. The findings show that the awareness level on the implications of non-compliance with safety practice among each professional is high and that there are significant differences in the level of awareness on six implications of non-compliance with safety practices; ‘physical injury/fatality to persons’, ‘workmen’s compensation’, ‘liability insurance premiums, ‘low morale of supervisors and workers’, ‘costs of delay’ and ‘time of cost’. The study concludes that professionals are aware of the implications of non-compliance with safety practices and their professional background affects the awareness level of six of the implications of non-compliance with safety practices. The study contributes to knowledge by identifying the six implications of non-compliance with safety practices where disparity exists in the awareness level among construction professionals. In cases where disparity exists in the awareness level among professionals, construction firms should adopt group discussion as a means of sensitization to increase awareness levels.

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Type A behavior pattern, accident optimism and fatalism: an investigation into non-compliance with safety work behaviors among hospital nurses

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

Relationship Between Optimism with Extra Role Behaviors and Occupational Accidents: A Case Study Among Nurses and Nursing Aids Working in Two Hospitals in Qom City, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study

Perceived Implications of Non-Compliance with Safety Practices in Construction Projects: Construction Professionals’ Awareness Level

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