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Effect of Work Values on Miners’ Safety Behavior: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment and the Moderating Role of Safety Climate

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  • Tiehua Chen

    (School of Management, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

  • Wenyi Hu

    (School of Management, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

  • Jingpin Liu

    (School of Management, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

  • Hongxia Li

    (School of Management, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
    Institute of Safety Management & Risk Control, School of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
    Institute of Safety & Emergency Management, School of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

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.

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  • Tiehua Chen & Wenyi Hu & Jingpin Liu & Hongxia Li, 2022. "Effect of Work Values on Miners’ Safety Behavior: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment and the Moderating Role of Safety Climate," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-16, August.
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    1. Antony Fute & Mohamed Oubibi & Binghai Sun & Yueliang Zhou & Weilong Xiao, 2022. "Work Values Predict Job Satisfaction among Chinese Teachers during COVID-19: The Mediation Role of Work Engagement," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-18, January.
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    1. Jiao Liu & Shuang Li & Weijun Bao & Kun Xu, 2022. "Could the Management System of Safety Partnership Change Miners’ Unsafe Behavior?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-14, October.

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