Promoting positive mental health among young construction workers: the role of theory

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Construction Management and Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI:10.1080/01446193.2023.2267137

Samuel Frimpong, Riza Yosia Sunindijo, Cynthia Changxin Wang, Elijah Frimpong Boadu, Ayirebi Dansoh, Carol K. H. Hon, Tak Wing Yiu

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Abstract

The post-modern approach to improving young peoples’ mental health emphasizes the need to promote positive mental health. However, research on young construction workers’ mental health has focused mainly on negative mental health, e.g. depression, suicidal ideation, and anxiety, and given far less attention to positive mental health. The aim of this research was to identify the reason for this trend and to propose an agenda for change. Based on the initial assumption that theory-use has contributed to this trend, we utilized the PICO and PRISMA-ScR frameworks to critically review the theoretical and conceptual models in published research on young construction workers’ mental health. Out of 367 articles retrieved, fourteen studies published between 2010 and 2023 qualified for inclusion. Eighteen different theories and frameworks were identified. Generally, studies focused on measuring the prevalence of symptoms of negative mental health. Theories and conceptual frameworks were mostly used to guide the identification of variables associated with negative mental health (e.g. age, workplace stressors, autonomy, etc.) and to explain the relationships among them. The identified theories and conceptual frameworks did not offer a positive conceptualisation of mental health, and as a result, no study theorized positive mental health. We offer a matrix for evaluating theory-use in research. We also identify and discuss the strengths and limitations of the current use of theory in published studies and provide recommendations on how theory-use can be improved to reorient construction research towards the promotion of positive mental health.

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促进青年建筑工人的积极心理健康:理论的作用

改善青年人心理健康的后现代方法强调需要促进积极的心理健康。然而，关于青年建筑工人心理健康的研究主要集中在消极心理健康方面，如抑郁、自杀意念和焦虑，而对积极心理健康的关注远远不够。这项研究的目的是确定这种趋势的原因，并提出一项改革议程。基于理论使用促成了这一趋势的初步假设，我们利用PICO和PRISMA-ScR框架对已发表的关于年轻建筑工人心理健康的研究中的理论和概念模型进行了批判性审查。在检索到的367篇文章中，有14篇发表于2010年至2023年之间的研究符合纳入条件。确定了18种不同的理论和框架。一般来说，研究的重点是衡量消极心理健康症状的流行程度。理论和概念框架主要用于指导识别与消极心理健康相关的变量(如年龄、工作场所压力源、自主性等)并解释它们之间的关系。所确定的理论和概念框架没有提供积极的心理健康概念化，因此，没有研究将积极的心理健康理论化。我们提供了一个评估理论在研究中的应用的矩阵。我们还确定并讨论了目前在已发表的研究中使用理论的优势和局限性，并就如何改进理论使用提出建议，以重新定位结构研究，以促进积极的心理健康。

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Construction Management and Economics BUSINESS-

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期刊介绍： Construction Management and Economics publishes high-quality original research concerning the management and economics of activity in the construction industry. Our concern is the production of the built environment. We seek to extend the concept of construction beyond on-site production to include a wide range of value-adding activities and involving coalitions of multiple actors, including clients and users, that evolve over time. We embrace the entire range of construction services provided by the architecture/engineering/construction sector, including design, procurement and through-life management. We welcome papers that demonstrate how the range of diverse academic and professional disciplines enable robust and novel theoretical, methodological and/or empirical insights into the world of construction. Ultimately, our aim is to inform and advance academic debates in the various disciplines that converge on the construction sector as a topic of research. While we expect papers to have strong theoretical positioning, we also seek contributions that offer critical, reflexive accounts on practice. Construction Management & Economics now publishes the following article types: -Research Papers -Notes - offering a comment on a previously published paper or report a new idea, empirical finding or approach. -Book Reviews -Letters - terse, scholarly comments on any aspect of interest to our readership. Commentaries -Obituaries - welcome in relation to significant figures in our field.