Work stressors, coping strategies, and poor mental health in the Chinese construction industry

Zhang, Shang; Sunindijo, Riza Yosia; Frimpong, Samuel; Su, Zhenwen

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2022.106039

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“…A third study highlighted a prevalence of 33% (mild-moderate and severe depression) in Australian construction industry professionals [ 35 ] and a fourth estimated a prevalence of 38% in Korea [ 7 ]. In addition, depression prevalence estimates of 30% and 37% were found by two nationally representative samples in China [ 9 , 36 ].…”

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“…A regional Nepalese study of workers on building construction sites measured a 19.2% prevalence of anxiety [ 33 ]. In construction participants living in China, moderate to extremely severe anxiety was measured at a prevalence of 33.6% [ 9 ]; in Australia, mild/moderate to severe anxiety was measured at a prevalence of 36% [ 35 ]. At the highest end, Lim et al (2017) [ 7 ] estimated that 42.7% of construction workers in Korea experienced symptoms of trait anxiety; the study investigated those working on road, bridge, tunnel, subway, and apartment construction sites.…”

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“…In India, high or extreme stress is a key problem [ 8 ]. Among construction employees in China, the prevalence of medium to extremely severe levels of depression, anxiety, and stress has been reported to be higher than in other employee populations in this country [ 9 ]. A study on the construction workforce in South Africa showed that the general wellbeing of the sample was slightly above the cut-off of 50, which corresponds to poor wellbeing.…”

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A Review on the Prevalence of Poor Mental Health in the Construction Industry

Blair Winkler,

Middleton,

Remes

2024

Healthcare

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A plethora of studies on the prevalence of poor mental health have been undertaken in the general population. Nevertheless, an understanding of the prevalence of poor mental health in the context of high-risk settings, such as construction, is missing. This is noteworthy as poor mental health is widespread in this context. Given that over 100 million people work in construction on a global scale, a better understanding of the burden of poor mental health in construction is needed. To this end, a review on the prevalence of key mental health-related conditions in construction was undertaken. Through this review, over 1000 papers were identified through PubMed and Google Scholar. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, a final set of 19 documents were included. Results showed that anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as psychological distress, have a high burden in construction. Vulnerable population subgroups (e.g., women, minority ethnic groups) were identified. Construction is a high-risk setting and despite this, the burden of poor mental health in this context is not given the importance it deserves. This review sheds light on the prevalence of key conditions, which are linked to high humanistic and economic burden. This review provides a foundation and useful starting point for further investigations, and results from this review may be used to inform future research, workplace interventions, and policy.

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A Review on the Prevalence of Poor Mental Health in the Construction Industry

Blair Winkler,

Middleton,

Remes

2024

Healthcare

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“…Zhang et al found that older workers in the Chinese construction industry who have used positive coping strategies, such as social support, had better health outcomes than young and less experienced workers, citing job demands as the most significant stressors. 25 A time-lagged study conducted by Mirza et al on health-centric leadership (which is defined as “leaders” explicit and therefore visible consideration of and engagement in employee health) and psychological health in a Malaysian population found a positive association between the two. 26 Another study on the Malaysian population conducted by Javaid and his colleagues in lieu of JD-R found that workers’ perception of job demands and social support from colleagues as well as from supervisors, besides control over the job, were significant predictors of not only psychological health, but also physiological health-related outcomes.…”

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Rampart of Health-Specific Leadership and Social Support of Colleagues to Overcome Burnout in an Emotionally Demanding Situations: The Mediating Role of Stress

Javaid¹,

Rehman²,

Mirza³

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Introduction Past studies have neglected the role of resources that enhance motivation, such as health-specific leadership (H-SL) and social support colleagues (SSC), in dealing with the prerequisites of psychological health of workers, especially the duo of stress and burnout. Objective This empirical study aimed to identify the impact of psychosocial job demands (emotional demands) and psychosocial job resources (health-specific leadership and social support of colleagues) on the psychological health (stress, burnout) of 284 Malaysian industrial workers (who participated both times). Methods The Hierarchical regression analysis was employed to examine all study hypotheses and a time lagged study design was used with a lag of three months between T1 and T2 for data collection. Results The survey data found a significant impact of emotional demands on stress and burnout, while we found insignificant findings of health-specific leadership and social support from colleagues on workers’ psychological health. Future Directions Future studies should consider the different formations of psychosocial job resources and higher dimensions of health promotion leadership.

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“…The construction industry has been known as a challenging, dangerous, and demanding industry involving complex multi-tasking, tight budgets, rigid time frames, and poor working environments [1,2]. Previous studies indicated that construction project managers, estimators, workers, and students often work under high pressure [3][4][5].…”

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Impact of Stressors/Stress on Organizational Commitment of Engineers in the Construction Industry

Leung,

Ahmed,

Chan

2024

Buildings

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Engineers often play vital roles in technical planning, designing, and operating projects, as well as implementing standard requirements in the physical sites. Although architectural designs may be similar in a construction project, the technical problems, including soil conditions, loading calculations, team combination, etc., often vary between projects. Although previous studies focus on the stress management of construction professionals, little research has been particularly conducted for the effects of stressors and stress of engineers on their organizational commitment. It is inevitable for engineers to experience different uncertainties, harsh working environments, and serious legal liabilities, while there is often no tolerance when it comes to deadlines and safety requirements. All this definitely puts great pressure on them and may subsequently affect their commitment to their organizations. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of stressors and stress on the commitment of engineers in the construction industry. A total of 146 respondents participated in a questionnaire survey, and various statistical analyses including a reliability test, correlation, and hierarchical multiple regressions were adopted for developing the optimized commitment models. The research results revealed that (1) Type A personality was a key factor, which had a significant positive effect on all the three organizational commitments of professional engineers in the construction industry; (2) poor office environment, job overload, and role ambiguity were positively associated with continuance and normative commitment, whereas poor site environment and lack of job autonomy were negatively linked with affective commitment; and (3) stress had a negative relationship with affective commitment; (4) however, there was no relationship between stress and continuance or normative commitment. In order to establish holistic organizational commitment strategies in the industry well, the current study indicates key stressors to upper management to help them efficiently manage complicated project teams in construction projects. In addition, it contributes the body of knowledge by developing an integrated commitment model for engineers. Finally, numerous recommendations are made, such as encouraging Type A personality behaviors, providing sufficient job autonomy, improving worksite conditions to enhance the organizational commitment of engineers, and reducing the adverse impacts of these stressors and stress.

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Work stressors, coping strategies, and poor mental health in the Chinese construction industry

Cited by 32 publications

References 68 publications

A Review on the Prevalence of Poor Mental Health in the Construction Industry

A Review on the Prevalence of Poor Mental Health in the Construction Industry

Rampart of Health-Specific Leadership and Social Support of Colleagues to Overcome Burnout in an Emotionally Demanding Situations: The Mediating Role of Stress

Impact of Stressors/Stress on Organizational Commitment of Engineers in the Construction Industry

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