Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Safety citizenship behaviors (SCBs) are important participative organizational behaviors that emerge in work-groups. SCBs create a work environment that supports individual and team safety, encourages a proactive management of workplace safety, and ultimately, prevents accidents....

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Main Authors: Curcuruto, M., Conchie, S.M., Griffin, Mark
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76337
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Conchie, S.M.
Griffin, Mark
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description © 2019 Elsevier Ltd Safety citizenship behaviors (SCBs) are important participative organizational behaviors that emerge in work-groups. SCBs create a work environment that supports individual and team safety, encourages a proactive management of workplace safety, and ultimately, prevents accidents. In spite of the importance of SCBs, little consensus exists on research issues like the dimensionality of safety citizenship, and if any superordinate factor level of safety citizenship should be conceptualized, and thus measured. The present study addressed this issue by examining the dimensionality of SCBs, as they relate to behaviors of helping, stewardship, civic virtue, whistleblowing, voice, and initiating change in current practices. Data on SCBs were collected from four industrial plants (N = 1065) in four European countries (Italy, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom). The results show that SCBs structure around two superordinate second-order factors that reflect affiliation and challenge. Multi-group analyses supported the structure and metric invariance of the two-factor model across the four national subsamples.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-763372019-09-24T07:14:31Z Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries Curcuruto, M. Conchie, S.M. Griffin, Mark Science & Technology Social Sciences Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Ergonomics Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Transportation Engineering Social Sciences - Other Topics Safety citizenship Cross-National research Affiliative behavior Change oriented behavior Factor structure Multi-Group analysis ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP MEDIATING ROLE FIT INDEXES CLIMATE MODEL CLUSTER DIMENSIONS EXCHANGE WORK © 2019 Elsevier Ltd Safety citizenship behaviors (SCBs) are important participative organizational behaviors that emerge in work-groups. SCBs create a work environment that supports individual and team safety, encourages a proactive management of workplace safety, and ultimately, prevents accidents. In spite of the importance of SCBs, little consensus exists on research issues like the dimensionality of safety citizenship, and if any superordinate factor level of safety citizenship should be conceptualized, and thus measured. The present study addressed this issue by examining the dimensionality of SCBs, as they relate to behaviors of helping, stewardship, civic virtue, whistleblowing, voice, and initiating change in current practices. Data on SCBs were collected from four industrial plants (N = 1065) in four European countries (Italy, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom). The results show that SCBs structure around two superordinate second-order factors that reflect affiliation and challenge. Multi-group analyses supported the structure and metric invariance of the two-factor model across the four national subsamples. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76337 10.1016/j.aap.2019.05.023 English PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD restricted
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Social Sciences
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Ergonomics
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Transportation
Engineering
Social Sciences - Other Topics
Safety citizenship
Cross-National research
Affiliative behavior
Change oriented behavior
Factor structure
Multi-Group analysis
ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
MEDIATING ROLE
FIT INDEXES
CLIMATE
MODEL
CLUSTER
DIMENSIONS
EXCHANGE
WORK
Curcuruto, M.
Conchie, S.M.
Griffin, Mark
Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries
title Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries
title_full Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries
title_fullStr Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries
title_full_unstemmed Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries
title_short Safety citizenship behavior (SCB) in the workplace: A stable construct? Analysis of psychometric invariance across four European countries
title_sort safety citizenship behavior (scb) in the workplace: a stable construct? analysis of psychometric invariance across four european countries
topic Science & Technology
Social Sciences
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Ergonomics
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Transportation
Engineering
Social Sciences - Other Topics
Safety citizenship
Cross-National research
Affiliative behavior
Change oriented behavior
Factor structure
Multi-Group analysis
ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
MEDIATING ROLE
FIT INDEXES
CLIMATE
MODEL
CLUSTER
DIMENSIONS
EXCHANGE
WORK
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76337