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Leadership, safety climate, and neuroticism: Integrating organizational and individual factors into the prediction of air technicians’ safety behaviors

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  • Yang, Chaocao
  • Xu, Shuai
  • Xie, Xudong
  • Li, Yuan
  • Ji, Ming
  • You, Xuqun

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Air technicians' safety behavior is crucial to aviation safety, and thus it is important to identify factors that may enhance such behavior and explore its mechanisms. By incorporating Safety-Specific Transformational Leadership (SSTL), safety climate, and neuroticism, this study examines whether, how, and when SSTL predicts air technicians' safety behaviors from the perspective of both organizational and individual factors. Correlation, mediation, and moderation analyses were conducted on data from a sample of 995 air technicians from six aviation enterprises in China. The results indicate that SSTL was positively related to air technicians' safety behavior and that this relationship was partially mediated by safety climate. Moreover, neuroticism moderated this effect, such that the positive relationship between SSTL and safety behavior was stronger in air technicians with a higher level of neuroticism. Theoretically, this study combines leadership and personality in a unified framework, enriching understanding of their joint role in predicting safety behaviors. Practically, it guides aviation enterprises to strengthen SSTL and adopt personality-sensitive management to enhance technicians’ safety behaviors.

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  • Yang, Chaocao & Xu, Shuai & Xie, Xudong & Li, Yuan & Ji, Ming & You, Xuqun, 2026. "Leadership, safety climate, and neuroticism: Integrating organizational and individual factors into the prediction of air technicians’ safety behaviors," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:131:y:2026:i:c:s0969699725001917
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102928
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