Unpacking the “Black Box”: Understanding the Effect of Social Network Characteristics on Safety Behaviors of Construction Workers

Table 5

Descriptive and correlation analyses of variables (N = 194).

Variable	Mean value		Standard deviation	SC	SP	SC	Formal network			Informal network			Gender	Age	Academic background
							Cd	Cp	Cb	Cd	Cp	Cb
SC	4.145		0.875
SP	4.083		0.978	0.688
SC				0.625	0.888
Formal network	Cd	38.962	9.151	0.500	0.556	0.507
	Cp	73.961	6.256	0.540	0.572	0.520	0.880
	Cb	2.039	0.916	0.287	0.404	0.386	0.572	0.630
Informal network	Cd	41.434	9.344	0.399	0.481	0.434	0.605	0.546	0.347
	Cp	76.235	6.950	0.331	0.408	0.382	0.499	0.529	0.266	0.868
	Cb	1.775	0.844	0.156	0.207	0.136	0.261	0.219	0.489	0.509	0.514
Gender	1.08		0.268	−0.228	−0.153	−0.066	−0.094	−0.087	−0.006	−0.006	−0.009	−0.007
Age	2.14		0.899	0.041	0.112	0.130	−0.001	0.014	0.075	−0.002	−0.022	−0.016	−0.154
Academic background	2.97		1.283	−0.007	0.020	−0.036	−0.106	−0.066	−0.014	−0.038	−0.026	−0.037	0.171	−0.240
Working years	2.12		0.923	0.138	0.204	0.169	0.110	0.140	0.072	0.185	0.165	0.061	−0.020	0.231	−0.131

Note: S_C, S_P, C_d, C_p, C_b, and SC are continuous variables; gender, age, academic background, and working years are classified variables. ; ; .