Chinese Values and Stressors of Construction Professionals in Hong Kong
by Mei-yung Leung, (corresponding author), (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Building and Construction, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong E-mail: bcmei@cityu.edu.hk), Yee-Shan Chan, (Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Building and Construction, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. E-mail: isabelle@student.cityu.edu.hk), and Alice Ming Lin Chong, (Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. E-mail: alice.chong@cityu.edu.hk)
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 136, No. 12, December 2010, pp. 1289-1298, (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000234)
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Section Heading: Labor and Personnel Issues |
| Abstract: |
The construction industry has been recognized as a stressful industry, and a great deal of stress is placed on various construction professionals (CPs). However, due to the different "values" among CPs in Hong Kong, susceptibility to stressors varies from individual to individual. People who grow up and live in different cultural environments have different values and this leads to different perceptions of stressors. This study aims to investigate the impact of Chinese values on the stressors of CPs in Hong Kong, one of the main cities in China. To achieve this aim, factor analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, and structural equation modeling were applied based on the survey data collected from CPs in Hong Kong. Four types of Chinese values and eight stressors are identified. The results reveal that: (1) social conventions value alleviate role ambiguity and poor workgroup relationship; (2) value of disciplined work ethos triggers work overload, although it alleviate poor workgroup relationship and work underload; (3) value of conservative personality alleviates work overload; (4) interpersonal integration value has indirect impacts on the various stressors; and (5) the objective poor working environment stressor has significant impact on the poor workgroup relationships and role ambiguity of individual CPs. |
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| Chinese values |
| Construction professionals |
| Interpersonal |
| Organization |
| Stressors |
| Task |
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