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Abediniangerabi, B, Shahandashti, S M, Ahmadi, N and Ashuri, B (2017) Empirical Investigation of Temporal Association between Architecture Billings Index and Construction Spending Using Time-Series Methods. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Barbachyn, S M, Devine, R D, Thrall, A P and Kurama, Y C (2017) Economic Evaluation of High-Strength Materials in Stocky Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

D’Onofrio, R M (2017) CPM Scheduling: A 60-Year History. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Gurmu, A T and Aibinu, A A (2017) Construction Equipment Management Practices for Improving Labor Productivity in Multistory Building Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Hanna, A S and Iskandar, K A (2017) Quantifying and Modeling the Cumulative Impact of Change Orders. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Hasanzadeh, S, Esmaeili, B and Dodd, M D (2017) Impact of Construction Workers’ Hazard Identification Skills on Their Visual Attention. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Hyari, K H, Shatarat, N and Khalafallah, A (2017) Handling Risks of Quantity Variations in Unit-Price Contracts. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Kamardeen, I and Sunindijo, R Y (2017) Personal Characteristics Moderate Work Stress in Construction Professionals. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Construction industry; Work stress; Personal characteristics; Multiple correspondence analysis; Labor and personnel issues;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001386
  • Abstract:
    Studies of work stress in the construction industry have largely considered work characteristics as cofounding factors of work-related psychological illnesses and have paid minimal attention to the characteristics of construction personnel. However, literature from the field of psychology suggests that characteristics of individuals are heavily associated with stress-induced psychological illnesses. This study, using multiple correspondence analyses of data collected from 283 professionals in the Australian construction industry, investigated the simultaneous influence of six personal characteristics of construction professionals, such as gender, age, occupation, income, marital status, and personality traits, on work-related psychological illnesses. Key findings are (1) marital status is a vital moderator of work stress whereby professionals with a status of separated, divorced, or widowed are at high risk of suffering severe anxiety, depression, and acute stress; and (2) female professionals at middle management levels reported mild to moderate anxiety and depression, whereas their male counterparts were largely within normal ranges. These findings imply that in order to reduce productivity losses and economic costs caused by work stress, construction organizations should have (1) specialized programs that identify and provide social and emotional support for employees who are suffering marital discord; and (2) family-friendly and female-friendly employment policies and terms.

Mani, N, Kisi, K P, Rojas, E M and Foster, E T (2017) Estimating Construction Labor Productivity Frontier: Pilot Study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Park, J, Cai, H, Dunston, P S and Ghasemkhani, H (2017) Database-Supported and Web-Based Visualization for Daily 4D BIM. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Sunindijo, R Y and Kamardeen, I (2017) Work Stress Is a Threat to Gender Diversity in the Construction Industry. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Tuchman, J L (2017) Why Journalism Matters. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Umer, W, Li, H, Szeto, G P Y and Wong, A Y L (2017) Low-Cost Ergonomic Intervention for Mitigating Physical and Subjective Discomfort during Manual Rebar Tying. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).

Zhang, Y, Minchin, R E and Agdas, D (2017) Forecasting Completed Cost of Highway Construction Projects Using LASSO Regularized Regression. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).