Examining the Mediating Role of Psychological Capital between Perceived Management Commitment and Safety Compliance/Participation of Graduate Students in Research Laboratories

Abstract

This study conducted a questionnaire survey to examine the influence mechanism of perceived management commitment on the safety compliance and participation of graduate students and to verify the mediating role of psychological capital. The questionnaire was distributed to graduate students through the MyCOS network platform. SPSS was used to conduct reliability and validity tests,test, correlation analysis, and bootstrapping mediation effect test. The results demonstrated that the perceived management commitment has a positive effect on both safety compliance and safety participation, with psychological capital as the mediating role. This study explains how graduate students’ perceived management commitment from their supervisors influences their safety behaviors.