Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic

This study mainly explores the impact of policy formalism, COVID-19 fear, social support, and work stress on the anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. The main objective of this study is to incorporate formalism variables to explore their impact on the stress and anxiety of constructi...

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Main Authors: Tsung-Lin Wu, Hsiang-Te Liu
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
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Acceso en liña:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/1/10
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description This study mainly explores the impact of policy formalism, COVID-19 fear, social support, and work stress on the anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. The main objective of this study is to incorporate formalism variables to explore their impact on the stress and anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. In particular, the variable of formalism is changed from the variable of government bureaucracy to the cognition of “policy formalism” of the general public. This study intends to understand whether the gap between epidemic prevention regulations and practices affects the fear of construction site workers. A total of 743 construction site worker samples in the leisure industry were collected in this study, and the established hypotheses were tested using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of the study confirmed that during the COVID-19 outbreak, social support of site workers negatively affects anxiety; COVID-19 fear positively affects anxiety and work stress; work stress mediates the relationship between COVID-19 fear and anxiety; fear of infecting family members and fear of infecting self both positively affect anxiety; policy formalism positively affects fear of infecting family members and fear of infecting self.
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spelling doaj.art-b99b51a482a344749bd24a17cb38f46c2023-11-30T21:28:37ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092022-12-011311010.3390/buildings13010010Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the EpidemicTsung-Lin Wu0Hsiang-Te Liu1Department of Leisure Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 84001, TaiwanDepartment of Public Affairs and Administration, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan 333, TaiwanThis study mainly explores the impact of policy formalism, COVID-19 fear, social support, and work stress on the anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. The main objective of this study is to incorporate formalism variables to explore their impact on the stress and anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. In particular, the variable of formalism is changed from the variable of government bureaucracy to the cognition of “policy formalism” of the general public. This study intends to understand whether the gap between epidemic prevention regulations and practices affects the fear of construction site workers. A total of 743 construction site worker samples in the leisure industry were collected in this study, and the established hypotheses were tested using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of the study confirmed that during the COVID-19 outbreak, social support of site workers negatively affects anxiety; COVID-19 fear positively affects anxiety and work stress; work stress mediates the relationship between COVID-19 fear and anxiety; fear of infecting family members and fear of infecting self both positively affect anxiety; policy formalism positively affects fear of infecting family members and fear of infecting self.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/1/10policy formalismCOVID-19 fearsocial supportwork stressanxiety
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Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic
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anxiety
title Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic
title_full Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic
title_fullStr Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic
title_full_unstemmed Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic
title_short Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic
title_sort causal model analysis of the effect of policy formalism covid 19 fear social support and work stress on construction workers anxiety during the epidemic
topic policy formalism
COVID-19 fear
social support
work stress
anxiety
url https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/1/10
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