Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the buffering effects of "WE-NESS" on the influence of job stress upon the unsafe behavior. The Ss of this research were 342 employees working in the field, were asked questionaire consisting 39 items to answer. The job stress factor consisted of 5 sub-factors(self-respect damage, production pressure, a sense of alienation, supervisor, and dishonor/accident witnessing) and the we-ness factor consisted of 4 sub-factors(intimacy, constraining force, thoughtful consideration, and affection). The dependent variable was unsafe behavior, such as badness or omision of assembling, wiring etc. A relationship among variables was identified by the correlation coefficient. A proposed model was confirmde by path analysis. In general, findings of the study were as follow. The cofirmed paths were 「job stress→unsafe behavior」and 「we-ness→unsafe behavior.」 More specifically, the intimacy and thoughtful factors of we-ness showed buffer effects on stress influence.