Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUT
Safety training (ST) is essential in avoiding unsafe behavior of construction workers. With the rise of metaverse technology, metaverse safety training (MST) has gradually become a new model to guide construction workers in safety production. An in-depth study of construction workers’ willingness to...
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| author | Zhenxu Guo Qinge Wang Chunyan Peng Sunning Zhuang Biao Yang |
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| description | Safety training (ST) is essential in avoiding unsafe behavior of construction workers. With the rise of metaverse technology, metaverse safety training (MST) has gradually become a new model to guide construction workers in safety production. An in-depth study of construction workers’ willingness to accept the metaverse safety training (WAMST) helps improve its effectiveness, but studies need to pay more attention to it. This study constructs a conceptual model of WAMST for construction workers, and the influencing factors of WAMST are explained based on the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). It established a Structural equation modeling to verify the relationship between influencing factors. An example verifies the feasibility of the model. The results show that the framework significantly contributes to the willingness of construction workers to participate and improves safety awareness. Specifically, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and convenient conditions significantly affect the construction workers’ willingness to accept. Convenient conditions have a direct effect on actual behavior. Willingness to accept plays a mediating role between performance expectancy and actual behavior. Perceived trust moderates the effect between willingness to accept and actual behavior, and the force of positive interpretation increases proportionally. It confirms how to improve the safety capacity of construction workers and provides references for governments, enterprises, and projects to formulate ST strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9ff6acea57cd40e7938527eab9e827d62024-01-10T13:57:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652024-01-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.12942031294203Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUTZhenxu Guo0Qinge Wang1Chunyan Peng2Sunning Zhuang3Biao Yang4School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, ChinaGuangzhou Expressway Co., LTD., Guangdong, ChinaGuangzhou Expressway Co., LTD., Guangdong, ChinaSafety training (ST) is essential in avoiding unsafe behavior of construction workers. With the rise of metaverse technology, metaverse safety training (MST) has gradually become a new model to guide construction workers in safety production. An in-depth study of construction workers’ willingness to accept the metaverse safety training (WAMST) helps improve its effectiveness, but studies need to pay more attention to it. This study constructs a conceptual model of WAMST for construction workers, and the influencing factors of WAMST are explained based on the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). It established a Structural equation modeling to verify the relationship between influencing factors. An example verifies the feasibility of the model. The results show that the framework significantly contributes to the willingness of construction workers to participate and improves safety awareness. Specifically, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and convenient conditions significantly affect the construction workers’ willingness to accept. Convenient conditions have a direct effect on actual behavior. Willingness to accept plays a mediating role between performance expectancy and actual behavior. Perceived trust moderates the effect between willingness to accept and actual behavior, and the force of positive interpretation increases proportionally. It confirms how to improve the safety capacity of construction workers and provides references for governments, enterprises, and projects to formulate ST strategies.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1294203/fullmetaversesafety trainingconstruction workerunified theory of acceptance and use of technologystructural equation modeling |
| spellingShingle | Zhenxu Guo Qinge Wang Chunyan Peng Sunning Zhuang Biao Yang Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUT Frontiers in Public Health metaverse safety training construction worker unified theory of acceptance and use of technology structural equation modeling |
| title | Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUT |
| title_full | Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUT |
| title_fullStr | Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUT |
| title_full_unstemmed | Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUT |
| title_short | Willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended UTAUT |
| title_sort | willingness to accept metaverse safety training for construction workers based on extended utaut |
| topic | metaverse safety training construction worker unified theory of acceptance and use of technology structural equation modeling |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1294203/full |
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