The Impact of Job Insecurity on Miner Safety Behavior—A Study Based on SEM and fsQCA

Abstract

The intelligent transformation of coal mines is one of the current trends in developing China’s coal mining industry. To explore the impact of miners’ insecurity on their safety behavior under this trend, miners’ psychological resilience was introduced as the mediating variable, and team safety climate was used as the moderating variable to conduct a questionnaire survey of frontline miners. The data analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, structural equation modeling (SEM), and the fsQCA method to explore the impact of job insecurity on miners’ risk behavior through psychological resilience from the dimensions of job loss insecurity, job performance insecurity, and interpersonal insecurity. The results show that the sense of insecurity of the miners has a significant negative correlation with security behavior and a significant negative correlation with psychological toughness; miners’ psychological resilience plays an intermediary role in the correlation between job loss insecurity and miners’ risk behavior. Meanwhile, team safety climate has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between job insecurity and psychological resilience, as well as the relationship between psychological resilience and safety behavior; that is, a good team safety climate can effectively reduce the negative impact of job insecurity brought about by the transformation and upgrading of coal mines.