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

Yonghui Li,Ruyin Long,Jiaqi Wang,Meifen Wu,Jiahui Yang

doi:10.3390/su13052995

Abstract

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.

Highlights

The characteristics of China’s “rich in coal, poor in oil, and few in gas” energy reserves, and the energy production structure and energy consumption structure, which are dominated by coal production, mean that coal will continue to be China’s main energy source into the future
The empirical analysis showed that cultural emotions and all three of its dimensions significantly and positively influenced miners’ work commitment, which was consistent with the findings of previous studies that highlighted how the organizational culture promotes behavior, while emotions promote behavior [44,47]
The empirical analysis showed that unemployment risk perceptions, policy unemployment risk perceptions, and individual differential unemployment risk perceptions weakened the relationship between cultural emotions and job commitment, i.e., had significant negative moderating effects

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Introduction

The characteristics of China’s “rich in coal, poor in oil, and few in gas” energy reserves, and the energy production structure and energy consumption structure, which are dominated by coal production, mean that coal will continue to be China’s main energy source into the future. China has made significant progress in coal mining technology and safety equipment configuration [1], coal mine accidents still occur frequently [2,3], and coal mine safety production is facing difficulties. Previous studies found that human factors have become the leading cause of coal mine accidents [4,5,6]. Accidents caused by unsafe human behavior accounted for 96.5% of the total number of accidents [7], and findings regarding workplace behavior and the health and safety of coal workers are not promising [8]. As the front-line staff in coal production activities, coal miners’

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