The Effects Of Self-efficacy On Resignation Risk Perception Among Miners

The whole mine market in China has slumped after the ten-year’s rapid growth since the coal demand seriously declined in 2012.The coal supply was out of balance so long that the market was glutted with coal.As a result,the situation would not turn into normal in a short time.Most coal companies were under deficit and they took measures to relief the rough condition,reducing the salary,together with the staff.According to the global economy and the New Normal in China now,the coal market would be in the New Normal for a long time as well.All the coal companies met the same crisis,nobody could help except themselves.Facing such special difficult,the government provided some principles,however,which were far from enough.How to adapt the market and how to develop in the future,which were the basic problems the company faced.What the workers faced was losing their work.Both the companies and the government had responsibility to help the miners,making proper plans on future career or training them to find another different new jobs.Modern miners have great differences from the old ones,the most significant was the conception.In this research,well-educationed miners took major,as much as 69.5%.They grew up with the rapid increasing market and knew the value of themselves.If there was something dangerous in their career,they would firstly estimate everything again,considering all risks.Self-efficacy played an important role in this reappraisal.Based on a sample of 131 miners came from Liulin(a small town in Shanxi province),the present study examined the associations between self-efficacy and risk perception on resignation during China’s New Normal among miners,using a self-administered questionnaire survey.Structural equation modeling analyses and hierarchical regression analyses were applied to detect the effects of self-efficacy on resignation risk perception,how general self-efficacy,position-skill,self-efficacy and self-regulated efficacy interact,as well as the functions of these three factors.Results indicated that after controlling for the effects of age,position,and educational level,Self-efficacy displayed a completely negative effect on risk perception,in which high self-efficacy miners were lower risk perception on resignation than their low self-efficacy counterparts.General self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the relation between self-regulated efficacy and risk perception on resignation,which accounted for 48.1%.As well,position-skill self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the relation between self-regulated efficacy and risk perception on resignation.That is,self-regulated efficacy could affect risk perception on resignation through position-skill self-efficacy.Meanwhile,the mediator effect accounted for 43.2% of the total effect.In sum,it is demonstrated that self-efficacy has a direct and indirect effect in the mechanisms exposing miners’ risk perception on resignation.These results imply that we could assist miners with low self-efficacy by improving their position skills and self-efficacy in order that they could believe in themselves and get a new proper job before long.Then the whole coal industry would go into normal over the problem of industrial overcapacity.