Citation

Chen T, Hu W, Liu J, Li H. Sustainability (Basel) 2022; 14(15): e9553.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/su14159553

PMID

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Abstract

Although numerous studies have confirmed the important influence of values on employees' behavior, less is known about the relationship between work values and miners' safe behavior. Based on self-verification theory and trait activation theory, this study constructed a structural equation model to explore the effect of work values on miners' safety behavior, using psychological empowerment as a mediating variable and safety climate as a moderating variable. Data were collected from 207 miners in three coal mines in China. The model was examined using a hierarchical regression analysis and the bootstrapping method. The results showed that three types of work values significantly and positively predicted miners' safety behavior, and psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between work values and miners' safety behavior. However, the moderating role of safety climate was not supported. The results enrich the boundary conditions under which work values influence miners' safety behavior and provide coal managers with intervention measures such as cultivating miners' work values and psychological empowerment, which can improve miners' safety behavior.

Language: en

Keywords

psychological empowerment; safety behavior; safety climate; work values