Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic

Wu, Tsung-Lin; Liu, Hsiang-Te

doi:10.3390/buildings13010010

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“…Between 37 and 50% of construction workers showed moderate to extremely severe levels of anxiety ( 47 , 50 ). Among the risk factors to which construction workers may be exposed are those related to working conditions ( 25 , 37 , 45 ), working hours ( 28 ), substance use ( 28 ) and nicotine dependence ( 50 ), safety culture ( 37 ), age ( 39 ), high workload ( 37 ), lack of organizational justice and lack of reward ( 37 ), ethnicity and lack of knowledge ( 47 ), and the characteristics of the pandemic ( 51 ).…”

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Stress, fear, and anxiety among construction workers: a systematic review

Gómez-Salgado

Camacho-Vega

Gómez‐Salgado

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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ObjectivesThe aim of this review was to assess the possible risk factors arising from working conditions, that could have an impact on the stress, fear, and anxiety of construction workers.MethodsA systematic review was conducted following the PRISMA format in the Pubmed, Cochrane, Web of Science, Scopus, and PsycInfo electronic databases on February 3, 2023, using the following key words: anxiety, stress, fear, and construction workers. Methodological quality was assessed using the critical appraisal tools of the Joanna Briggs Institute.ResultsA total of 35 studies were included. The results showed a number of conditioning factors for stress, anxiety, and fear among construction workers such as age, inappropriate safety equipment, safety culture, high workload and long working hours, physical pain, low social support from direct supervisor or co-workers, lack of organizational justice and lack of reward, financial situation, maladaptive coping strategies, and characteristics of the pandemic.ConclusionsThere are a number of risk factors related to working conditions, organizations, and individuals that can affect the levels of stress, anxiety, and fear among construction workers, such as age, work hardship, safety culture and, especially, the long hours that construction professionals work. This may lead to an increase in the number of occupational accidents and higher associated fatality rates.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42022367724, identifier: CRD42022367724.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fear among construction workers was mainly associated with the characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic ( 46 , 51 ), with possible job insecurity ( 46 ), and with fear of losing their jobs ( 49 ).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stress, fear, and anxiety among construction workers: a systematic review

Gómez-Salgado

Camacho-Vega

Gómez‐Salgado

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…The implicit procedures are a traditional model inferring the mediation effect by a single inferential test of path relationships between the independent and dependent variables (Baron and Kenny 1986). Although criticised as out of date (Bullock and Green 2021), scholars still use this model in social studies even now due to its simplicity (e.g., Zhou et al 2023;Wittmann and Wulf 2023;Wu and Liu 2023).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Resources Information System (HRIS) to Enhance Civil Servants’ Innovation Outcomes: Compulsory or Complimentary?

Satispi

Rajiani

Murod

et al. 2023

Administrative Sciences

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The Internet of things (IoT) has oriented organisations digitally in administrating human resources. In line with this trend, Indonesian public sectors are adopting Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) to boost employee innovation outcomes. However, coercive pressure to implement HRIS has only resulted in fiascos for the technology, which cannot be fully considered to eliminate long, ineffective, and inefficient practices. This study examines the instrumental adoption factors to adopt HRIS in boosting employee innovation outcomes from technological, organisational, people, and social outlooks. The empirical data consisting of 500 valid datasets were obtained from public servants in Indonesia via web-based questionnaires. structural equation modelling (SEM), which was used to examine the relationship among constructs. Technology fit, organisational resources, knowledge, and social influences have positive impacts on technology adoption. However, when treated as a mediation, the negative path from HRIS to innovation outcomes implied that e-HRM reflected in HRIS implementation would not make employees innovative. The scrutinized under ability, motivation, and opportunity (AMO) framework and empirical insights clearly portray that Indonesian’s ability to fit into this framework is problematical, making technological innovation in the Indonesian public sector only complimentary, not compulsory. This study suggests that HRM reform in public organisations is a top priority if the country wishes to achieve world-class bureaucracy by 2025.

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“…Companies and their employees are required to adapt to new ways of working and maintain their operations. Wu and Liu [1] examined the impact of policy formalism, COVID-19 fear, social support, and work stress on the anxiety of construction workers during the pandemic using data collected from 743 construction site workers in Taiwan. Their findings show how policy formalism affects COVID-19 fear which causes anxiety and work stress, and how work stress mediates the relationship between COVID-19 fear and anxiety.…”

Section: Covid-19 and Whsmentioning

confidence: 99%