Relationships between Social Support, Social Status Perception, Social Identity, Work Stress, and Safety Behavior of Construction Site Management Personnel

The occupational injury death rate and mortality ratio owing to cerebrovascular cardiovascular diseases in the construction industry are highest among all industries Taiwan. Reducing work stress improving safety behavior is a must for reducing disasters diseases. Construction site management personnel’s an important paradigm workers. This study explored relationships stress, behavior, professional identity, social status perception, support personnel by using structural equation modeling (SEM). results indicated that low can lead favorable behavior. Greater company support, family identity reduce stress. Social perception negatively influences indirectly through mediation of identity. revealed working within exempt employee system (i.e., no overtime pay compensatory leave) exhibited significantly higher effort/reward than those without this system. Gender, headquarter location, location also influenced on-site ratio.