TY - GEN
T1 - Improving the Mental Health of the Construction Workforce
T2 - International Conference on Transportation and Development 2025: Transportation Planning and Operations, ICTD 2025
AU - Pamidimukkala, Apurva
AU - Kermanshachi, Sharareh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ASCE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Construction workers' mental health is being increasingly compromised by stressors that are prevalent within the complex construction environment. The need to mitigate or eliminate these stressors served as the motivation for this study, which aims to group and categorize mental health intervention strategies into meaningful dimensions. A survey of 343 construction workers was conducted to evaluate the strategies identified from the literature, and a factor analysis was employed to reduce the strategies into latent dimensions. The analysis identified three dimensions (employee well-being, workplace harmony, and workplace flexibility) that explain 64.07% of the cumulative variance and emphasize the fundamental areas that need attention for improved mental health outcomes. The findings of this study provide a structured framework that policymakers can utilize to prioritize mental health interventions within the construction industry.
AB - Construction workers' mental health is being increasingly compromised by stressors that are prevalent within the complex construction environment. The need to mitigate or eliminate these stressors served as the motivation for this study, which aims to group and categorize mental health intervention strategies into meaningful dimensions. A survey of 343 construction workers was conducted to evaluate the strategies identified from the literature, and a factor analysis was employed to reduce the strategies into latent dimensions. The analysis identified three dimensions (employee well-being, workplace harmony, and workplace flexibility) that explain 64.07% of the cumulative variance and emphasize the fundamental areas that need attention for improved mental health outcomes. The findings of this study provide a structured framework that policymakers can utilize to prioritize mental health interventions within the construction industry.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105010197356
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=105010197356&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784486207.087
DO - 10.1061/9780784486207.087
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105010197356
T3 - International Conference on Transportation and Development 2025: Transportation Planning and Operations - Selected Papers from the International Conference on Transportation and Development 2025
SP - 1003
EP - 1012
BT - International Conference on Transportation and Development 2025
A2 - Wei, Heng
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 8 June 2025 through 11 June 2025
ER -
