InterpersonalcontagionmechanismofsafetyviolationswithdualpropagationpathLIULin1，2，MEIQiang2，WUJinnan3，LIUSuxia2(1SchoolofManagementScienceandEngineering，AnhuiUniversityofTechnology，Ma’anshan243032，Anhui，China;2SchoolofManagement，JiangsuUniversity，Zhenjiang212013，Jiangsu，China;3SchoolofBusiness，AnhuiUniversityofTechnology，Ma’anshan243032，Anhui，China)Abstract:Employeesafetyviolationhasbeenwelldemonstratedasoneoftherootcausesoforganizationalsafetyaccidentsandinjuries．Althoughanextensiveliteraturehasrevealedtheindividualandorganizationalantecedentsofsafetyviolations，littleisknownabouthowtheinterpersonalcontagionofsafetyviolationsoccurswithinorganizations．Thus，thepresentpaperaimstonarrowthistheoreticalgapinsafetybehaviorliteraturebyrevealingtheunderlyingmechanismthroughwhichinterpersonalcontagionofsafetyviolationshappens．Basedonsociallearningtheoryandgeneraldeterrencetheory，amechanisticmodelwasdevelopedforunderstandinginterpersonalcontagionofsafetyviolationsfromthedualpropagationpathofbothrationalcognition(i．e．，perceivedpunishmentcertaintyandperceivedpunishmentseverity)andemotionalexperience(i．e．，perceivedshamecertaintyandperceivedshameseverity)．Usingthecoworkersafetyviolationscale，theperceivedpunishmentcertaintyandseverityscale，theperceivedshamecertaintyandseverityscale，andthefocalemployeesafetyviolationscale，thispaperconductedatwo-stageonlinesurveyon353front-lineemployeesinhigh-riskindustriestoavoidthecommonmethoddeviationsandthenanalyzedthisdatasetwithSPSS，Mplus，andPＲOCESSmacro．Themultiplehierarchicalregressionresultsindicatethatcoworkers’safetyviolationspositivelycorrelateswithfocalemployees’safetyviolations，whichvalidatestheinterpersonalcontagionofsafetyviolationwithinorganizations．Beforetestingthemediationhypotheses，theconfirmatoryfactoranalysiswasusedtodeterminetheoptimalmodelbycomparingthefitindexesandBayesianinformationcriterionofthehypotheticalmodel，nestedmodel，andalternativemodel．Then，themediationhypotheseswer...
