How Do COVID-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work–Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives

Wei Zhang; Dongxiao Gu; Yuguang Xie; Aida Khakimova; Oleg Zolotarev

doi:10.3390/ijerph20065138

journal article Open Access Mar 14, 2023

How Do COVID-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work–Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives

Wei Zhang

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 20 No. 6 pp. 5138 · MDPI AG

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Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has created challenging working conditions in coal-production activities. In addition to the massive loss of resources for miners, it has had a devastating impact on these individuals’ mental health. Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and a resource-loss perspective, this study examined the impact of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, perceived job insecurity, and work–family conflict on miners’ job performance. Moreover, this study investigated the mediating role of job anxiety (JA) and health anxiety (HA). The study data were collected through online structured questionnaires disseminated to 629 employees working in a coal mine in China. The data analysis and hypothesis generation were conducted using the structural equation modeling (partial least squares) method. The results demonstrated that the perception of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, job insecurity, and work–family conflict negatively and significantly impacted miners’ job performance. In addition, JA and HA negatively mediated the relationships between the perception of COVID-19 risk, life-safety risk, perceived job insecurity, work–family conflict, and job performance. The findings of this study can give coal-mining companies and their staff useful insights into how to minimize the pandemic’s effects on their operations.

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Published: Mar 14, 2023
Vol/Issue: 20(6)
Pages: 5138
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Authors

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Wei Zhang

School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

D

Dongxiao Gu

School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

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Yuguang Xie

School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

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Aida Khakimova

Scientific-Research Center for Physical-Technical Informatics, Russian New University, Moscow 105005, Russia

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Oleg Zolotarev

Scientific-Research Center for Physical-Technical Informatics, Russian New University, Moscow 105005, Russia

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China Award: 72271082

Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Strategy and Soft Science Research Special Project Award: 72271082

Cite This Article

Wei Zhang, Dongxiao Gu, Yuguang Xie, et al. (2023). How Do COVID-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work–Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6), 5138. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20065138

How Do COVID-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work–Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives

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