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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Injury Prevention and Control
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1398815

The Effects of Psychological Safety and Employee Voice Behavior on Flight Attendants' Mindful Safety Practices Adoption

Provisionally accepted
Shi Hu Shi Hu 1*Muhammad Aamir Nadeem Muhammad Aamir Nadeem 2Ji Luo Ji Luo 1Xiaobo Yi Xiaobo Yi 1
  • 1 Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China
  • 2 Faisalabad Medical University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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    Flight attendants as the front-line staff in the cabin play a crucial role in air travel safety enhancement. This research aims to explore how psychological safety affects flight attendants' adoption of mindful safety practices through voice participation. This mechanism also identifies ethical leadership and traditionality as two moderators. A self-reported questionnaire was used to collect data from 621 flight attendants in Chinese private commercial airline companies. PLS-SEM (partial least square structured equation modeling) is used to examine the hypotheses proposed in the present study. After data analysis, the results reveal that the underlying mechanism covering mediating and moderating effects through which flight attendants' voluntary and extra-role safety behavior could be improved. The findings enhance the existing literature regarding the antecedents of flight attendants' mindful safety practices adoption. Managerial implications are also provided in the commercial aviation industry and discussed along with future research directions.

    Keywords: psychological safety, Employee voice behavior, Ethical Leadership, traditionality, flight attendants, mindful safety practices

    Received: 10 Mar 2024; Accepted: 26 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Hu, Nadeem, Luo and Yi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Shi Hu, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China

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