Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in Italy
Risk perception can be influenced by cultural background. The study aims to evaluate risk perception, considering different ethnicities of construction workers from vocational schools in Italy. We administered a questionnaire investigating four different dimensions: Perceived behavioral control (PBC...
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| author | Federico Ricci Giulia Bravo Alberto Modenese Fabrizio De Pasquale Davide Ferrari Massimo Bello Gianluca Favero Sergio Soddu Fabriziomaria Gobba |
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| description | Risk perception can be influenced by cultural background. The study aims to evaluate risk perception, considering different ethnicities of construction workers from vocational schools in Italy. We administered a questionnaire investigating four different dimensions: Perceived behavioral control (PBC), Danger perception (DP), Safety climate (SC), and Attitude towards safe actions (ATSA). 562 workers answered: 72.4% from Italy, 14.2% from eastern Europe, 9.4% from Balkans, and 3.9% from North Africa. The participants indicated quite low control, attributable to the haste in performing the job. The workers perceived their specific job tasks as riskier compared to the tasks of their colleagues. They reported as fundamental the respecting of safety rules, but indicating that supervisors do not adequately promote safety behaviors. Finally, construction workers judged as “brave” the colleagues working without protective equipment. When compared to Italians, North Africa workers showed a lower perception of the possibility to control their safe behaviors (<i>p</i> = 0.040), while both eastern Europeans and Balkan obtained higher scores at the ATSA dimension, indicating a kind of fatalistic acceptance of the risky situations at work. Eastern Europeans also showed a lower perception of the dangers (<i>p</i> = 0.002), while Balkan demonstrated a perception of SC even better than the Italian group (<i>p</i> = 0.005). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f799965bc9f4812b2bddf9021864aec2023-12-03T14:46:53ZengMDPI AGEuropean Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education2174-81442254-96252021-01-011119610910.3390/ejihpe11010008Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in ItalyFederico Ricci0Giulia Bravo1Alberto Modenese2Fabrizio De Pasquale3Davide Ferrari4Massimo Bello5Gianluca Favero6Sergio Soddu7Fabriziomaria Gobba8Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, ItalyDepartment of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, ItalyDepartment of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, ItalyDepartment of Public Health, National Health Service, 41126 Modena, ItalyDepartment of Public Health, National Health Service, 41126 Modena, ItalyDepartment of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, ItalyObservatory for the Prevention, 33074 Fontanafredda, ItalyDepartment of Public Health, National Health Service, 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena, ItalyDepartment of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, ItalyRisk perception can be influenced by cultural background. The study aims to evaluate risk perception, considering different ethnicities of construction workers from vocational schools in Italy. We administered a questionnaire investigating four different dimensions: Perceived behavioral control (PBC), Danger perception (DP), Safety climate (SC), and Attitude towards safe actions (ATSA). 562 workers answered: 72.4% from Italy, 14.2% from eastern Europe, 9.4% from Balkans, and 3.9% from North Africa. The participants indicated quite low control, attributable to the haste in performing the job. The workers perceived their specific job tasks as riskier compared to the tasks of their colleagues. They reported as fundamental the respecting of safety rules, but indicating that supervisors do not adequately promote safety behaviors. Finally, construction workers judged as “brave” the colleagues working without protective equipment. When compared to Italians, North Africa workers showed a lower perception of the possibility to control their safe behaviors (<i>p</i> = 0.040), while both eastern Europeans and Balkan obtained higher scores at the ATSA dimension, indicating a kind of fatalistic acceptance of the risky situations at work. Eastern Europeans also showed a lower perception of the dangers (<i>p</i> = 0.002), while Balkan demonstrated a perception of SC even better than the Italian group (<i>p</i> = 0.005).https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/11/1/8risk perceptionethnicityconstruction sectorsafety climateperceived behavioral controlattitude towards safe actions |
| spellingShingle | Federico Ricci Giulia Bravo Alberto Modenese Fabrizio De Pasquale Davide Ferrari Massimo Bello Gianluca Favero Sergio Soddu Fabriziomaria Gobba Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in Italy European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education risk perception ethnicity construction sector safety climate perceived behavioral control attitude towards safe actions |
| title | Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in Italy |
| title_full | Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in Italy |
| title_fullStr | Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in Italy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in Italy |
| title_short | Risk Perception and Ethnic Background in Construction Workers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Trainees of a Vocational School in Italy |
| title_sort | risk perception and ethnic background in construction workers results of a cross sectional study in a group of trainees of a vocational school in italy |
| topic | risk perception ethnicity construction sector safety climate perceived behavioral control attitude towards safe actions |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/11/1/8 |
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