ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1632848
This article is part of the Research TopicEnhancing Health and Safety for Productivity in the Construction SectorView all 11 articles
The Emotional Equation: How Psychosocial Support Boosts Safety Practices in the Context of Construction 5.0
Provisionally accepted
- 1Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China
- 2Southeast University, Nanjing, China
- 3City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
- 4China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China
- 5China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- 6Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, China
- 7University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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Background: Construction 5.0, which emphasizes human-centric technologies and improved collaboration between humans and machines in intelligent construction ecosystems, introduces distinct safety management challenges that necessitate effective emotional resource allocation strategies. This study utilizes job demands-resources theory to investigate how emotional resources are allocated for safety management by examining the relationships among safety practice, psychosocial support, safety participation, and leadership safety behavior. Methods: A face-to-face questionnaire survey was conducted with front-line construction workers involved in Construction 5.0 projects, yielding 118 valid responses. The data were analyzed using linear regression models and the bootstrap method. Results: The findings reveal that: 1) psychosocial support positively influences both safety participation and safety practices; 2) safety participation enhances safety practices; 3) safety participation fully mediates the effect of psychosocial support on safety practices; and 4) leadership safety behavior positively moderates the relationship between safety participation and safety practices.This study extends the job demands-resources framework by illustrating the flow of emotional resources in the context of Construction 5.0, thereby highlighting the principles of multilevel emotional resources in the relationship between emotion and safety. Practically, this framework allows for the evolution of human-centric safety measures in tandem with advanced technology-enabled work environments, while also maintaining psychosocial balance in intelligent construction ecosystems.
Keywords: construction 5.0, Safety practice, Psychosocial support, Safety participation, leadership safety behavior
Received: 21 May 2025; Accepted: 22 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, Yuan, Yin, Gu, Lu, Liu and Skibniewski. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Lei Zhang, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China
Jingfeng Yuan, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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