Measurement equivalence of a safety climate measure among Hispanic and White Non-Hispanic construction workers

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• Personal Author:
  Chen PY ; Cigularov KP ; Gittleman, Janie ; Haile E ; Lancaster PG
• Description:
  Research continues to expose ethnic disparities in safety and health outcomes, making comparative studies of work-related factors that may explain these disparities increasingly important. Such studies raise issues about the cross-ethnic validity of the measures used to assess the factors of interest, such as safety climate. The current study is the first to examine the measurement equivalence of a multidimensional safety climate scale. A multi-group confirmatory factor analytic approach was used to assess the equivalence of the measure across White English-speaking, Hispanic English-speaking, and Hispanic Spanish-speaking construction workers. Results indicated that the same pattern of factors and equivalent factor loadings adequately represented the safety climate items across groups. However, other differences in item parameters were identified, including non-equivalence of some error variances and intercepts. This study highlights the importance of establishing measurement equivalence before proceeding with mean comparisons among groups. Future research should continue to investigate why differences in safetyrelated perceptions across ethnicities might exist. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Mass Behavior Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Safety Climate Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Data-processing Group-dynamics Health-surveys Measurement Equivalence Occupational-safety-programs Qualitative-analysis Questionnaires Racial-factors Safety-climate Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Sociological-factors Work-analysis Work-environment Work-practices Workers

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• ISSN:
  0925-7535
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  58-68
• Volume:
  54
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047220
• Citation:
  Saf Sci 2013 Apr; 54:58-68
• Contact Point Address:
  Peter Y. Chen, International Graduate School of Business, City West Campus, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
• Email:
  peter.chen@unisa.edu.au
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Safety Science
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:af50cc844436f99dd064e523159e4b4d3d5c070971b0eaaa64f46a0151d959d21d5a08492afa2af960f073a345f0caeeaebfcc51ff21f63240c87ef4ac976ff6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202374/cdc_202374_DS1.pdf
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