scholarly journals A Comprehensive Model of the Relationship between Miners’ Work Commitment, Cultural Emotion and Unemployment Risk Perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2995
Author(s):  
Yonghui Li ◽  
Jiahui Yang ◽  
Meifen Wu ◽  
Jiaqi Wang ◽  
Ruyin Long
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Work Commitment ◽  
Coal Miners ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Unemployment Risk

The psychological health and work commitment of miners are prerequisites to ensuring their sustainable safety behavior, and it is also significant to the sustainable development of coal mines in China. In this context, we conducted a questionnaire survey among coal miners of state-owned coal enterprises to explore the relationships between cultural emotion, unemployment risk perception, Big Five personality traits, and work commitment. The results reveal that (1) cultural emotion and its three dimensions played a significant positive role in promoting work commitment. (2) Unemployment risk perception, policy unemployment risk perception, and individual differential unemployment risk perception had a negative moderating effect. (3) Moreover, work commitment was associated with differences in personality characteristics except for agreeableness. This research is of important theoretical value and practical significance, as it can guide Chinese coal miners to increase their work commitment and thereby improve safety in production.

The structure of unemployment risk perception among migrant workers in China: An exploratory mixed methods study

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-198
Author(s):  
Ai-xiang Zheng ◽  
Hai-bo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Unemployment Risk ◽  
Financial Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

China has 287 million migrant workers and identifying and preventing their unemployment risk holds theoretical and practical significance. This study collected data in 2019 to explore the structure of migrant workers’ perception of unemployment risk. In the first stage of this study, in-depth interviews and grounded theory analysis were conducted and an interpretation framework for migrant workers’ unemployment risk perception (URP) was developed. In the second stage, a URP scale for migrant workers was developed and then tested and verified using a questionnaire survey and factor analysis. The results showed that the URP of migrant workers is composed of many dimensions: mental, financial, relationship, citizenization and re-migration.

Practical significance of law constitutional principles

2020 ◽  
pp. 435-441
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Paramonov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
Basic Ideas

We consider the constitutional principles of Russian law in the framework of positivist legal consciousness. We note the highest value of the law constitutional principles, as the basic ideas that underlie individual branches of law and all legal regulation. We focus on the practical significance of the constitutional principles of Russian law. We point out that in order to overcome defects in the legal consciousness of the population, it is advisable to duplicate the law principles that enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and in sectoral legislation. We emphasize that the practical significance of the law constitutional principles is manifested not only in their direct role in the legal regulation of public relations, but also in the fact that in judicial practice they can be used in the case of applying the analogy of law and the analogy of legislation. We indicate that this legal and technical tool is used to fill gaps in legal regulation. It is used in many branches of Russian law: civil, civil procedural, arbitration procedural, ad-ministrative procedural, family and others. Thus, the study shows the positive role of law constitutional principles in decision-making by a law enforcer in the absence of sectoral legal norms applicable in a particular situation.

Parents as partners in adolescent HIV prevention in Eastern and Southern Africa: an evaluation of the current United Nations’ approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Wathuta
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Heterosexual Transmission ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa

Abstract The United Nations’s (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) include the target (3.3) of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. A major challenge in this regard is to curb the incidence of HIV among adolescents, the number two cause of their death in Africa. In Eastern and Southern Africa, they are mainly infected through heterosexual transmission. Research findings about parental influence on the sexual behavior of their adolescent children are reviewed and findings indicate that parental communication, monitoring and connectedness contribute to the avoidance of risky sexual behavior in adolescents. This article evaluates the extent to which these three dimensions of parenting have been factored in to current HIV prevention recommendations relating to adolescent boys and girls. Four pertinent UN reports are analyzed and the results used to demonstrate that the positive role of parents or primary caregivers vis-à-vis risky sexual behavior has tendentially been back-grounded or even potentially undermined. A more explicit inclusion of parents in adolescent HIV prevention policy and practice is essential – obstacles notwithstanding – enabling their indispensable partnership towards ending an epidemic mostly driven by sexual risk behavior. Evidence from successful or promising projects is included to illustrate the practical feasibility and fruitfulness of this approach.

scholarly journals The Restorative Effect of the Natural Environment on University Students’ Psychological Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Emma A. Payne ◽  
Natasha M. Loi ◽  
Einar B. Thorsteinsson
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
University Students ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Waitlist Control ◽  
Perceived Satisfaction ◽  
Waitlist Control Group

The present study evaluated the effect of a three-week intervention aimed at improving psychological health in university students. Participants included 200 Australian students randomly assigned to an experimental or waitlist control group, with 42 adhering to intervention instructions. Participants in the experimental group read a story about someone who used the natural environment to decrease stress and burnout levels and to increase their perceived satisfaction with life. They were then instructed to spend 20 minutes each week, for three weeks, in any chosen natural environment. Waitlist control participants received intervention instructions three weeks later. Restorativeness was positively associated with life satisfaction and negatively related to stress and burnout. Experimental participants, compared to waitlist control participants, experienced a significant decrease in stress; however, the intervention had no effect on life satisfaction or burnout. More research is still needed to determine the practical significance of nature exposure on university students’ psychological health.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Influence of Psychological Contract on Employee Safety Behaviors against COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6747
Author(s):  
Yuexin Du ◽  
Hui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Employee Safety ◽  
Returning To Work ◽  
Perceived Insider Status ◽  
Work Resumption

This study explored the influencing factors of safety behavior from the perspective of employees, studied the mechanism of the psychological contract on employees’ safety behavior in the context of the Chinese epidemic situation, tested the mediating role of job burnout and perceived insider status in the process of work resumption, and provided preventive suggestions for combating the global spread of COVID-19. A questionnaire survey was utilized to collect data and, combined with the necessary protective measures taken for employees in China, was used to modify the mature safety behavior scale. Finally, through the analysis of 402 employees’ questionnaires, the hypotheses were verified; that is, in the process of Chinese enterprises returning to work to cope with COVID-19, the psychological contract has a positive role in promoting employees’ safety behavior, while job burnout plays a weakened mediating role, and perceived insider status plays a strengthening mediating role. The psychological contract negatively affects job burnout but positively affects perceived insider status. Job burnout negatively affects employees’ safety behavior, but perceived insider status positively affects employees’ safety behavior. The results show that employees’ conscious participation in safety behavior plays an irreplaceable role in the prevention of COVID-19 and safety of work resumption.

Personality Traits and Financial Strain as Determinants of Gambling Behaviour among Youth in Nigeria: A Case Study of Youths in Oyo State and Ekiti State

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bankole Emmanuel Temitope ◽  
Adebunmi Oyekola ◽  
Bankole Abimbola Mary
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Gambling Behaviour

This study aims to assess personality characteristics and financial strain as a determinant of gambling behaviour among youth in Nigeria. Three instruments were used in the study which include Gambling behaviour scale developed by Jeffery (2010) used in measuring prevalence and pattern of gambling behaviour, Big five personality scale developed by Goldberg (1993) used in assessing personality domain of an individual and Financial strain scale developed by Aldana & Liljenquist (1998) used in measuring the rate of financial strain experienced by people. Three hundred and twenty participants (320) were used in this study but two hundred and ninety seven participants (297) responses were retrieved for analysis. Hypotheses were tested using regression analysis and independent t-test and the result were discussed according to literatures. It was concluded from the study that personality characteristics and financial strain predicts gambling behaviour and also there is sex differences in gambling behaviour. As a result of this, it was however recommended that youths are to be trained on how to improve their behavioural attitudes and should be well guided so as to avoid gambling because it has serious effects on their psychological health and overall well-being.

Health harm of work from the sustainable HRM perspective: scale development and validation

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 924-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sugumar Mariappanadar
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Study Item ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a health harm of work scale from the sustainable HRM perspective. Design/methodology/approach A three-dimensional model was proposed for the health harm of work scale and validated (Total n=527) using a five-part study (item generation, item reduction, convergent, construct and discriminant validity). Findings Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported that the three dimensions (restrictions for positive health, the risk factors for psychological health and the side effect harm of work) simultaneously tap into different aspects of the health harm of work construct. The results from the construct validity revealed that health harm of work as a phenomenon has manifested itself in different facets of health harm of work intensification. Finally, the discriminant validity study revealed that the overlap between the dimensions of the health harm of work scale and the dimensions of recovery experience from the work questionnaire is low and it provides support for the discriminant validity of dimensions between these two scales. Practical implications The proposed measure can be used as potential leading indicators for negative occupational health to prevent or delay the onset of work-related illness manifestation or health consequences (sick leave, absenteeism, presenteeism, etc.). Originality/value This is the first study to validate a measure of health harm of work and to provide tangible evidence of health harm of work which will subsequently trigger organizations to introduce a planned intervention to improve occupational well-being to promote sustainable HRM.

Do we see how they perceive risk? An integrated analysis of risk perception and its effect on workplace safety behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nini Xia ◽  
Xueqing Wang ◽  
Mark A. Griffin ◽  
Chunlin Wu ◽  
Bingsheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Perceive Risk
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