Sensation seeking and risk perception as predictors of physical and psychosocial safety behavior in risk and non-risk professions

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Gonçalves ◽  
C. Sousa ◽  
M. Pereira ◽  
E. Pinto ◽  
A. Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Safety Behavior

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.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Urban Risk-Taking Behaviour during 2018 Typhoon Mangkhut: A Cross Sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 4150
Author(s):  
Evan Su Wei Shang ◽  
Eugene Siu Kai Lo ◽  
Zhe Huang ◽  
Kevin Kei Ching Hung ◽  
Emily Ying Yang Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Extreme Events ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
High Risk Behaviour

Although much of the health emergency and disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) literature evaluates methods to protect health assets and mitigate health risks from disasters, there is a lack of research into those who have taken high-risk behaviour during extreme events. The study’s main objective is to examine the association between engaging in high-risk behaviour and factors including sociodemographic characteristics, disaster risk perception and household preparedness during a super typhoon. A computerized randomized digit dialling cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Hong Kong, an urban metropolis, two weeks after the landing of Typhoon Mangkhut. Telephone interviews were conducted in Cantonese with adult residents. The response rate was 23.8% and the sample was representative of the Hong Kong population. Multivariable logistic regressions of 521 respondents adjusted with age and gender found education, income, risk perception and disaster preparedness were insignificantly associated with risk-taking behaviour during typhoons. This suggests that other factors may be involved in driving this behaviour, such as a general tendency to underestimate risk or sensation seeking. Further Health-EDRM research into risk-taking and sensation seeking behaviour during extreme events is needed to identify policy measures.

scholarly journals The sublime attraction of active volcanoes: An exploration of tourists’ experiences during a long-distance hiking route in Iceland

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Þórhildur Heimisdóttir ◽  
Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir ◽  
Guðrún Gísladóttir
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Participatory Observation

This article attempts to understand the value and meaning of a hazardous natural environment for tourists. It focuses on the attraction of volcanic sites in the eyes of sensation-seeking hikers. The research is based on a participatory observation study and in-depth interviews with 11 hikers on the Laugavegur hiking trail, in the Highlands of Iceland. The research questions addressed in this article are, do hikers experience a threat from the natural environment, and does a hazardous environment contribute to a feeling of the sublime? In support of the theories put forth in the article about sensation seekers, risk perception, its heuristic traps and sublime feeling, the article argues that tourists perceive risks in the hazardous environment in a positive way, as something spectacular, unique and sublime. Thus, their positive risk perception of existing potential environmental hazards encourages tourists to ignore signs of risks and hazards and subsequently puts them in unnecessary danger.

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

scholarly journals PENGARUH KONFORMITAS DAN RISK PERCEPTION TERHADAP SENSATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR PADA REMAJA PENGENDARA SEPEDA MOTOR DI BAWAH UMUR

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aully Grashinta ◽  
Ummu Khairun Nisa
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale

Penelitian bertujuan membuktikan pengaruh persepsi resiko sebagai faktor internal individu dan konformitas teman sebaya sebagai faktor eksternal terhadap kecenderungan sensation seeking behavior pada remaja pengendara sepeda motor di bawah umur. Sampel penelitian 201 pengendara sepeda motor berusia 12-16 tahun di Jakarta.Teknik sampling yaitu aksidental. Konformitas diukur dengan modifikasi skala Konformitas Teman Sebaya (Annurfatmah,2014), reliabilitasnya 0.734; risk perception diukur denganmodifikasi Skala Risk Perception (Utami,2010)reliabilitasnya 0,888 sedangkan sensation seeking behaviour diukur dengan modifikasi Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V) dari Zuckerman (2007) reliabilitasnya 0.879.Teknik analisis data menggunakan regresi ganda. Nilai R2 yang diperoleh sebesar 0.324 and p<0.05. Hal ini berarti bahwa konformitas dan risk perception memiliki pengaruh terhadap sensation seeking behavior sebesar 32.4% (R2=0.324, p<0.05) sedangkan sisanya 67.6% dipengaruhi oleh faktor lain.

scholarly journals Risk Perception Evaluation of Hazardous Occupational Workers in a Steel Company of Khuzestan Province

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Ali Alboghobeish ◽  
Ehsan Heidari Farsani ◽  
Mehrdad Jaberi ◽  
Syd Amin Jazayeri
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Risk Scores ◽  
Average Risk ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Khuzestan Province ◽  
Occupational Risks

Behavior, practice and how to carry out safe tasks by workers and industrial personnel who exposure to injuries and incidents, Depending on their understanding of the real risks in the workplace. The empirical definition of risk is expressed by calculating the probability of an incident and the magnitude of the consequences of an incident. Employee perceptions of occupational risks have a significant impact on their safety behavior in the workplace. Therefore, research on risk perception is an issue that has attracted many researchers' attention. This descriptive-analytical study was carried out in the winter of 2017 on workers of 10 technical workshops of one of the steel companies of Khuzestan province. Risk perception of workers was assessed using risk perception questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha 0.73. One-way ANOVA, One Sample T-Test and Post Hoc test were used to analyze the data. All perceived risk scores for people were at acceptable levels. The category of individuals in the marital status had the highest score and the experience of the people was the lowest score. Among demographics specification, only education is associated with an average risk perception score. The present study shows that none of the individuals' personal characteristics have a direct and positive impact on risk perception. In order to increase the level of risk perception of workers, planning and developing continuous training programs should be used.  

A Review of Risk Perception in Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Gómez-Bull
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Construction Organizations ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Occupational Characteristics ◽  
Perception Process

The construction industry has been notorious for its high rates of accidents and injuries associated with social, financial, and legal implications. Previous studies mention that risk perception is related to workers´ safety behavior and, therefore, accidents. This review aims to identify in which context risk perception has been studied in recent years and the variables associated with it. Google Scholar and Science Direct databases were searched for articles using the following keywords: “risk perception,” “construction industry”, and “safety behavior.” The inclusion criteria were that the articles answered the questions formulated in the spider methodology. Sixty-three articles were included in the literature review. The results indicated that risk perception is a subjective judgment that results from the combination of the likelihood perception of a specific risk being present and the severity perception of the risk if it occurs. The risk perception has been studied in different areas such as tourism, driving behavior, electricians, firefighters, and confrontation to viruses or pandemic, and the construction industry. Personal traits, sociodemographic variables, cultural factors, and occupational characteristics (training in security, experience, and seniority at work) have been addressed to study risk perception in construction workers. Safety must be a priority for construction organizations. This study highlights the importance of studying risk perception in the workplace since construction workers are exposed to risky activities at work. Also, it is important to understand the risk perception process and its contributory factors for construction workers. It is possible to have specific information that helps design actions for effective risk management and prevent the number of accidents and fatalities from increasing.

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