澳大利亚多元文化建筑工作场所的个人特征和环境压力对心理健康的影响

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Construction Management and Economics Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI:10.1080/01446193.2022.2127154

Qinjun Liu, Yingbin Feng, K. London, P. Zhang

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摘要

摘要暴露在各种压力源中导致了建筑工人的心理健康问题。文化上不宽容的环境可能会加剧多元文化工作场所的心理健康问题。然而，到目前为止，一个尚未得到充分解决的潜在结构性问题是，在多元文化的建筑环境中，关键的个人特征和环境压力对心理健康的影响。本研究旨在探讨在多元文化环境中，个人特征和环境压力源在建筑工人心理健康中的作用。数据是通过对澳大利亚252名建筑工人的在线问卷调查收集的。采用偏最小二乘估计的结构方程建模（SEM）技术对数据进行分析。结果表明，员工的心理健康不仅受到与工作环境相关的压力源的影响，还受到个体特征的影响。文化压力源水平的增加往往会加剧工作压力源对心理健康的不利影响。工作压力源更有可能导致以攻击性、竞争性、模糊性和冲动性人格为特征的个体的心理健康问题；而文化压力源不太可能导致这些人的心理健康问题。这项研究为关键的人-环境因素与心理健康之间的关系提供了一个创新的视角，并为多元文化建筑工作场所的工作健康和安全实践提供了信息。

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Influence of personal characteristics and environmental stressors on mental health for multicultural construction workplaces in Australia

Abstract Exposure to various stressors has resulted in a significant problem of mental health among the construction workforce. A culturally intolerant environment may aggravate mental ill health in a multicultural workplace. However, an underlying structural issue that has not been sufficiently addressed to date is the influence the crucial personal characteristics and environmental stressors have on mental health in the multicultural construction environment. This study aims to examine the role of personal characteristics and environmental stressors in construction workers’ mental health in the multicultural environment. Data were collected using an online questionnaire survey from 252 construction workers in Australia. The structural equation modelling (SEM) technique with partial least-squares estimation (PLS) was adopted to analyze the data. Results showed that workers’ mental health is not only influenced by stressors related to the work environment, but also by individual traits. Increased levels of cultural stressors tend to aggravate the adverse effect of work stressors on mental health. Work stressors are more likely to cause mental ill health for the individuals characterized by a higher level of aggressive, competitive, ambiguous, and impulsive personalities; whilst cultural stressors are less likely to cause mental ill health for those individuals. This research offers an innovative perspective on the relationships between crucial person-environment factors and mental health, and informs the practice of work health and safety in the multicultural construction workplace.

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Construction Management and Economics BUSINESS-

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7.50

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14.70%

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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.