TY - GEN
T1 - Gender differences in risk-taking-related personality traits and risk perception
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, 2019
AU - Wong, Kapo
AU - Chan, Alan Hoi Shou
AU - Alabdulkarim, Saad A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2019/6/6
Y1 - 2019/6/6
N2 - This study aims to examine gender differences among engineering students in terms of risk-taking-related personality traits and risk perception. Thirteen scenarios based on actual fatality cases in the construction industry were used in the analysis. A total of 100 engineering undergraduates (male: 63, female: 37) were interviewed to identify their risk-taking-related personality traits and risk perception. Among ten personality traits, results show that being adventurous was the only personality trait positively correlated with risk-taking behaviour among female respondents. Two personality traits, namely, being adventurous and arrogant, were positively correlated with risk-taking behaviour among male respondents. The personality trait of calm was negatively correlated with risk-taking behaviour among male respondents. In terms of risk perception, females were slightly lower than males. These findings can be used as a reference for designing different safety training and awareness programs for male and female engineers and workers in the construction industry.
AB - This study aims to examine gender differences among engineering students in terms of risk-taking-related personality traits and risk perception. Thirteen scenarios based on actual fatality cases in the construction industry were used in the analysis. A total of 100 engineering undergraduates (male: 63, female: 37) were interviewed to identify their risk-taking-related personality traits and risk perception. Among ten personality traits, results show that being adventurous was the only personality trait positively correlated with risk-taking behaviour among female respondents. Two personality traits, namely, being adventurous and arrogant, were positively correlated with risk-taking behaviour among male respondents. The personality trait of calm was negatively correlated with risk-taking behaviour among male respondents. In terms of risk perception, females were slightly lower than males. These findings can be used as a reference for designing different safety training and awareness programs for male and female engineers and workers in the construction industry.
KW - Construction industry
KW - Gender differences
KW - Risk perception
KW - Risk-taking behaviour
KW - Risk-taking-related personality traits
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85067335822
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-20497-6_29
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-20497-6_29
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85067335822
SN - 9783030204969
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 307
EP - 316
BT - Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors - Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors
A2 - Arezes, Pedro M.
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 28 July 2019
ER -