Gyekye Seth Ayim
Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Neitsytsaarentie 8 D 22, 00960 96 Helsinki, Finland.
J Safety Res. 2003;34(5):533-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2003.03.002.
Reports from the accident literature indicate that accident rates tend to vary with type of occupation. The mining industry has been recorded as the most dangerous with a high disabling injury rate. This observation has been attributed to the extremely stressful conditions under which miners work. Besides, the intimidating work environment in the mines has been insinuated to invoke a sense of helplessness, fatalism and hence defensive causal attributions for accident occurrences.
This study compared causal attributions between accident victims in Ghana's mining industry with their counterparts in textile factories. T values and Chi-square were employed to test for statistically significant differences between the two groups of accident victims.
Findings indicate that there is no difference between the causal attributions for miners and non-miners.
Accident frequency and occupational type have no impact on causal attributions.
事故文献报告表明，事故发生率往往因职业类型而异。采矿业被记录为最危险的行业，致残伤害率很高。这一观察结果归因于矿工工作时极端紧张的条件。此外，有人暗示矿井中令人生畏的工作环境会引发无助感、宿命论，从而导致对事故发生的防御性因果归因。
本研究比较了加纳采矿业事故受害者与纺织厂事故受害者的因果归因。采用T值和卡方检验来检验两组事故受害者之间的统计学显著差异。
研究结果表明，矿工和非矿工的因果归因没有差异。
事故频率和职业类型对因果归因没有影响。
