OBJECTIVES This study investigated whether the association between perceived psychological contract breach (PCB) and employee mental health is moderated by the cognitive-motivational pattern of overcommitment (OC). Linking the psychological contract approach to the effort-reward imbalance model, this study examines PCB as an imbalance in employment relationships that acts as a psychosocial stre...

prominent factor in the empirical research of organizational psychology, and has been used to predict a broad range of individual and organizational outcome variables. However, not all results are consistent, nor do they show relationships in the same direction, as there are important variations both in the size and in the sign of the relationships between PCB and the attitudes and behaviours o...

The fear and uncertainty created by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have strained employer-employee relationship. This research seeks to understand how psychological contract breach shapes employees' perspectives of meaningful work its influence on turnover intention. Drawing event systems theory, we investigated objective events in environment (e.g., global pandemic) impact employees. We also ar...

The author proposes a conceptual model to explain the diverse roles of social capital--resources embedded in social networks--in the social production of health. Using a unique national U.S. sample, the author estimated a path analysis model to examine the direct and indirect effects of social capital on psychological distress and its intervening effects on the relationships between other struc...

Research findings comparing the work attitudes of full-time and part-time employees have been inconsistent and inconclusive. Furthermore, empirical studies have tended to be atheoretical, and there are few convincing psychological explanations to explain differences where found. This article tests the psychological contract as an explanatory framework for attitudinal differences across work sta...

objective: psychological capital is a new concept which has been raised since the third millennium and entered in organizational field since 2006. given the unique role of this concept in the production of corporate wealth it has been changed into a research basis for researchers and scholars. therefore, the present study aims to design a model for promotion of psychological capital with an emp...

Background and Aim: Rapid transmission and sudden outbreak of new coronavirus have caused widespread stress among the community and treatment staff. Regarding the consecutive peaks of the disease, its persistence stress, in the long run, creates destructive effects and leads to physical weakness and psychological complications. Hence, the present study seeks to find proper ways to promote psych...