This study examined the mentoring relationship as a context for the development of psychological contracts and investigated the obligations that mentors and protégés feel that they owe and are owed in the mentoring relationship. By using psychological contract theory, we develop new insights into the dynamics of the mentoring relationship and extend psychological contract research by applying t...

One of the major issues in IT outsourcing is the management of the client-vendor relationship. Researchers have suggested the use of both formal processes such as contract negotiations and bidding and to informal processes such as relationship management to reduce vendor opportunistic behaviors. This paper explores psychological beliefs about mutual obligations in outsourcing relationships thro...

Network analysis is a promising step forward in efforts to align psychological assessment with explanatory theory in psychological science. The implications of Cramer et al.'s analysis are quite general. Networks analysis may illuminate functional relations not only among observable behaviors that comprise psychological disorders, but among cognitive and affective processes that causally contri...

The problem considered is how to map the concepts of Quantum Theory (QT) to elements of a psychological experiment. The QT concepts are “measurement,” “state,” and “observable”. The elements of a psychological experiment are trial, stimulus, instructions, questions, and responses.

This paper presents a middle-range theory of psychological adaptation in death and dying that was abstracted from a series of quantitative and qualitative studies. The findings from these studies are described, a conceptual definition for end-of-life psychological adaptation is given, evidence is synthesized into a limited number of assumptions, testable hypotheses are derived, and the construc...

Based on the theory of emotional contagion and similar attraction paradigm, this research explored the psychological mechanism of coaching leadership promoting employee voice behavior. The results showed that subordinate psychological capital mediated the relationship between coaching leadership and employee voice behavior. Moreover, supervisor employee dyadic tenure significantly moderated the...

Psychology, it has been alleged, has sadly neglected the study of language. Still, it could be argued that there exist dozens of psychological studies of selected problems in this area; as examples, investigations of vocabulary, child speech, and language ability could be cited. Moreover, we need only mention the writings of Gardiner (8), Kantor (10), Biihler (3), and De Laguna (6) to show that...