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Using the Job Demands–Resources model to investigate risk perception, safety climate and job satisfaction in safety critical organizations
Author(s) -
NIELSEN MORTEN BIRKELAND,
MEARNS KATHRYN,
MATTHIESEN STIG BERGE,
EID JARLE
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00885.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , job attitude , psychology , job design , perception , risk perception , applied psychology , norwegian , personnel psychology , job performance , social psychology , occupational safety and health , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , neuroscience
Nielsen, M. B., Mearns, K., Matthiesen, S. B. & Eid, J. (2011). Using the Job Demands–Resources model to investigate risk perception, safety climate and job satisfaction in safety critical organizations. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 465–475. Using the Job Demands–Resources model (JD‐R) as a theoretical framework, this study investigated the relationship between risk perception as a job demand and psychological safety climate as a job resource with regard to job satisfaction in safety critical organizations. In line with the JD‐R model, it was hypothesized that high levels of risk perception is related to low job satisfaction and that a positive perception of safety climate is related to high job satisfaction. In addition, it was hypothesized that safety climate moderates the relationship between risk perception and job satisfaction. Using a sample of Norwegian offshore workers ( N = 986), all three hypotheses were supported. In summary, workers who perceived high levels of risk reported lower levels of job satisfaction, whereas this effect diminished when workers perceived their safety climate as positive. Follow‐up analyses revealed that this interaction was dependent on the type of risks in question. The results of this study supports the JD‐R model, and provides further evidence for relationships between safety‐related concepts and work‐related outcomes indicating that organizations should not only develop and implement sound safety procedures to reduce the effects of risks and hazards on workers, but can also enhance other areas of organizational life through a focus on safety.