Research On The Cross-level Influence Mechanism Of Dual Identification On Millennial Miners' Counterproductive Work Behavior

The low level of miners' mental health and the enterprises' safety management have long existed in high-risk industries such as coal mine enterprises in China.With the end of the 10-year golden period of coal and the implementation of the Supply-side Structural Reform,the potential problems of the once-high-speed expansion-type development are becoming more prominent,exacerbating the difficult situation of coal mine safety management and making practitioners' psychological expectations even dimmer.Existing researches on the mental state of miners are mostly based on local,static and individual levels.However,in recent years,counterproductive work behavior has extended from individualization to collective,organizational,and networking trends.It has shown an unfavorable top-down group counterproductive work behavior.Under the dual role of the closed operation environment in the coal mine enterprises and new generation values,millennial miners frequently participate in counterproductive work behaviors,causing huge hidden dangers to coal mine safety.Combining the unique identities and intergenerational characteristics of millennial miners to explore the cognitive causes and mechanisms of their participation in the group counterproductive work behaviors will help improve the miners' occupational psychological health and coal mine safety governance level.From the perspective of dual identification,meso-level group behavior and inter-group communication are included in the research category based on social identity theory and self-classification theory.It is conducted with the millennial miner object,focusing on the development and changing trends of group-individual behaviors at different levels.The direct and joint effects of professional identification and group identification on the counterproductive work behavior of the millennial miners are discussed in depth.Based on social cognition theory and moral disengagement theory,it is identified that the rational mechanism between dual identification and the counterproductive work behavior of the millennial miners is group efficacy,and the irrational mechanism is moral disengagement.On the basis,a dual-path cross-level theoretical model of dual identification and counterproductive behavior was systematically constructed in an integrated manner.A two-stage questionnaire survey was conducted to collect valid matching samples containing 40 group leader questionnaires and 387 group member questionnaires.Empirical analysis and hypothesis tests were performed using the Structural Equation Model,Hierarchical Linear Model,and Bootstrap mediation effect test.The results support all the hypotheses in this paper.The main conclusions of this paper are as follows.Firstly,dual identification has a significant direct effect on the counterproductive work behavior of the millennial employees in the coal mine enterprise.Among them,group identification plays a negative role in promoting counterproductive work behavior,while professional identification plays a positive role in inhibiting counterproductive work behavior.Secondly,dual identification has a joint effect on the counterproductive work behavior of the millennial employees in the coal mine enterprise.Specifically,when professional identification is higher than group identification,the individual counterproductive work behavior intention is lower,when professional identification is lower than group identification,the individual counterproductive work behavior intention is higher,when professional identification is equal to group identification,the intention is between the two levels,and the level of identification has no significant effect on the individual counterproductive work behavior intention.Thirdly,dual identification affects the counterproductive work behavior of the millennial miners through the dual-path mediation of rational group efficacy and irrational moral disengagement.Specifically,professional identification affects individual counterproductive work behavior through the mediating effect of group efficacy;group identification influences individual counterproductive work behavior through the mediating effect of moral disengagement.Among them,moral disengagement is the key intermediary variable in the entire path of identification affecting counterproductive work behavior,also an important cognitive mechanism of dual identification to promote the counterproductive work behavior of the millennial miners.Based on the empirical analysis results and conclusions,and using systematic management thinking,group governance measures are proposed to provide new perspectives and management suggestions for the long-term problems of the low levels of miners' mental health and corporate safety management in the high-risk industries such as coal mine enterprises in China.