Campion, James E.2017-04-172017-04-17December 22016-12December 2http://hdl.handle.net/10657/1727Belongingness has a long history in the social literature, yet there is a dearth of research on belongingness in the workplace. This research examined a general sense of belonging at work related to workplace safety. The job demands-resources (JD-R) model related to workplace safety framework was used to develop a conceptual model. Belongingness theory was applied to the JD-R model to examine if a general sense of belonging at work could serve as a job resource to mitigate undesirable workplace safety outcomes and strengthen positive workplace safety outcomes. Self-report measures were electronically administered online and data were collected from 1,017 employees of a pipeline operator company. As predicted, regression results showed that employees who reported higher levels of a general sense of belonging at work reported lower feelings of fatigue and emotional exhaustion, and higher safety motivation. Moreover, a general sense of belonging at work mitigated relationships between feelings of fatigue and accidents and injuries, and strengthened a safety motivation and safe behavior relationship. In addition, two studies consisting of undergraduate student work samples (n = 542 and 116) were used along with the field study to develop and validate a general belonging at work (GBW) scale.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Belonging at workJob demands-resources modelWorkplace safety2017-04-17Thesisborn digital