Personal Characteristics Moderate Work Stress in Construction Professionals

Kamardeen, Imriyas; Sunindijo, Riza Yosia

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001386

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“…The intensive and chronic work-family conflict suffered by construction professionals, such as construction site managers, on-site estimators or operatives, and civil or structural engineers [19,20], is thus likely to undermine their mental health and increase their engagement in problem behaviors. Construction professionals have been considered one of the most stressed-out groups in the construction industry [21]. Nevertheless, few studies have undertaken an examination of the mechanism underlying the effect of work-family conflict on mental health and problem behavior in the context of temporary construction projects.…”

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Work–Family Conflict, Emotional Responses, Workplace Deviance, and Well-Being among Construction Professionals: A Sequential Mediation Model

Yan

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Given the dynamic, complex, and highly demanding project environment, construction professionals are particularly likely to experience a high level of work–family conflict. Taking an emotional resource perspective and on the basis of affective events theory, this study tested negative affect and emotional exhaustion as sequential mediators between two directions of work–family conflict and workplace well-being or deviance behavior. The theoretical model was examined using data collected at two time points from 143 construction professionals through regression analysis and bootstrapping. The results indicate that work–family conflict was positively related to deviant behavior and negatively related to workplace well-being. The findings demonstrate that the mediation effects of emotional exhaustion between work–family conflict and workplace well-being or deviant behavior were significant and that the sequential mediating effects of negative affect and emotional exhaustion in the relationship between work–family conflict and workplace well-being or deviant behavior were significant. Moreover, different impacts of work interference with family and family interference with work on job-related attitudes and behavior were observed. These findings highlight the importance of emotional experience to understand the negative impact of work–family conflict in the temporary project context.

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Work–Family Conflict, Emotional Responses, Workplace Deviance, and Well-Being among Construction Professionals: A Sequential Mediation Model

Yan

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2020

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“…Employees' work-life balance (Lingard, Brown, Bradley, Bailey and Townsend, 2007); Training and education (Russell, Hanna, Bank and Shapira, 2007) Demographic factors contributing to employees' health and work stress (Kamardeen and Sunindijo, 2017) Note: only one reference is cited for each typical study in Table 2. More references related to the same type of study can be found from other relevant JCEM articles.…”

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Scientometric Review of Articles Published in ASCE’sJournal of Construction Engineering and Managementfrom 2000 to 2018

Jin

Zuo

Hong

2019

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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This study aims to address research questions related to the evolutionof academic research in the field of construction engineering and management (CEM): (1) what are the mainstream research topics since 2000? (2) whatare the emerging topics or techniques in CEM within the recent decades? (3) whatarepotentialCEM research areas in the near future? Ascientometric analysiswas conducted to review articles published in Journal of Construction Engineering and Mnagement (JCEM) since 2000,follow by a qualitative discussion.Thisstudy revealed that project performance indicator-related topics (e.g., cost, scheduling, safety, productivity, and risk management) had been the ongoing mainstream issues over the past decades.Labor and personnel issues had gained even more research attention in the last ten years. Information and communication technologies (e.g., Building Information Modeling or BIM) applied in CEM had been gaining the momentum since 2009. A variety of quantitative methods had gained popularity in the CEM discipline, such as algorithm, statistics, fuzzy set, and neural networks. The follow-up qualitative analysis led to the contributions of this review-based study in terms that: (1) it provided an overview of the research topics in CEM since 2000 through a text-mining approach; (2) it offered insights on the emerging and near

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“…Towards meeting this performance criteria construction project managers are always demanding the optimum performance from construction workers. This situation leads to a heavy workload that causes a different form of stress for construction professionals (Kamardeen and Sunindijo 2017). Also, Cattell et al (2016) concluded that the stress exhibited by construction workers occur due to the demand from clients and project managers that continually seek to ensure that work is completed on time.…”

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“…Similarly, Chan et al (2018) indicated that stress, confronting the construction worker is on the increase due to the ever-changing working conditions on construction sites. Kamardeen and Sunindijo (2017) attributed the stress faced by construction workers to the everyday hazards occurring on site. The author submitted that the high fatality rate of construction workers is due to the stress suffered by them on construction sites.…”

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Appraisal of Strategy Adopted by Construction Professionals for Coping with Stress

Osunsanmi

Oke

Aigbavboa

2019

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Stress has been identified as a significant hindrance to construction professional’s performance on site. Unfortunately, stress cannot be eliminated on site, but it can only be managed with different stress coping strategies. Therefore, this study aimed at appraising the strategy adopted by construction professionals for coping with stress. Although past studies have examined strategies adopted for dealing with the stress from two dimensions namely: problem-solving and emotional based stress coping strategies. This study introduced the third dimension and called it acceptance a hybrid of previous dimensions. It also appraised the strategy adopted by construction professionals for coping with stress based on their working experience. Convenience sampling method was used in gathering data from selected construction professionals in Lagos state Nigeria. A total of 62 questionnaires were obtained from the professionals out of 70 that were distributed. The data were analysed with statistical package for social science (SPSS version 24), using, mean score and Kruskal Wallis test. The findings from the Kruskal Wallis revealed that the strategy for coping with stress coping is dependent on the construction professionals working experience. The study concludes that communication is a crucial element for coping with construction stress. The study recommends that construction firms and project managers should provide opportunities for construction workers to communicate among themselves. The findings from this study will be useful for project managers and construction firms in Nigeria towards ameliorating the adverse effect of stress among construction professionals.

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Personal Characteristics Moderate Work Stress in Construction Professionals

Cited by 48 publications

References 28 publications

Work–Family Conflict, Emotional Responses, Workplace Deviance, and Well-Being among Construction Professionals: A Sequential Mediation Model

Work–Family Conflict, Emotional Responses, Workplace Deviance, and Well-Being among Construction Professionals: A Sequential Mediation Model

Scientometric Review of Articles Published in ASCE’sJournal of Construction Engineering and Managementfrom 2000 to 2018

Appraisal of Strategy Adopted by Construction Professionals for Coping with Stress

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