‘My family’s goals are also my goals’: the relationship between collectivism, distal utility value, and learning and career goals of international university students in Germany

The utility value of an academic task can affect university students’ learning behavior and career choices. For collectivistic-oriented students, learning and career goals also matter to their families. Following expectancy-value theory, we assumed that families’ achievement-related expectations would affect collectivistic-oriented students’ utility value. We conducted a survey study with 154 international university students in Germany. We found a significant mediation effect of students’ distal utility value of their university coursework on the relationship between students’ collectivism, learning goal orientation, and motivation to follow family-oriented distal career goals, respectively. Practical implications for career counselors and university teachers are discussed

Insecure yet Resourceful: Psychological Capital Mitigates the Negative Effects of Employees’ Career Insecurity on Their Career Satisfaction

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased employee career concerns (i.e., insecurity), and many people face difficulties with their current jobs. In addition, employees have struggled with their health due to COVID-19. Based on the psychological capital (PsyCap) and the conservation of resource theories, we suggest that personal resources, such as resilience, can mitigate the adverse effects of employee career insecurity on their career-related outcomes, such as career satisfaction, as well as on their health. In a German-speaking sample (N = 185) and a two-wave design, we investigated the role of employees’ career insecurity on their career satisfaction. We employed PsyCap as a moderator in these relationships. Results showed a negative relationship between career insecurity and career satisfaction. In addition, moderation analyses revealed that PsyCap significantly moderates the effects of career insecurity on employee career satisfaction. Specifically, for high PsyCap the effect of career insecurity on employee career satisfaction does not hold significant, while it does for low PsyCap, showing that PsyCap can mitigate the negative effects of career insecurity on employee career satisfaction. With a robust personal construct in career research, our study contributes to this field by investigating the role of PsyCap for employee careers, especially in a crisis context (i.e., COVID-19). We discuss implications for employees and organizations

Implicit-Explicit Motive Congruence and Its Effect on Job Burnout and Job Satisfaction Through Intrinsic Motivation

This study aims at replicating the study by Rawolle et al. (2016) on the mediating effect of implicit explicit motive discrepancy (IED) on job burnout through intrinsic motivation. Further, it adds on the research by researching the same mediation analysis on job satisfaction and further, add volitional self-regulation as a moderator in the relationship between IED and intrinsic motivation and IED and job burnout and job satisfaction. Further, it aims at re-analyzing the IED with polynomial regression and response surface analysis as difference score has been reported as to be problematic (e.g., Schönbrodt, 2016)

Latent Profiles to Predict Telecommuting Preference

With this project, we aim at creating profiles based on some psychological variables (need for autonomy, self-regulation etc.), compare the profiles across groups (gender,age and marital status), and predict some work-related variables with the profiles. Most importantly, with this profiles we will predict the individual's willingness to telecommute. This is a second stage of a previously created project

Followers’ Motives as Moderators of the Effects of Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Follower Outcomes and Leaders’ Influence

Supplemental materials for Mr. Cafer Bakaç's "Followers’ Motives as Moderators of the Effects of Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Follower Outcomes and Leaders’ Influence

Latent Profiles of Telecommuters Amid a Pandemic

With this project, we aim at creating profiles based on some psychological variables (need for autonomy, self-regulation etc.), compare the profiles across groups (gender,age and marital status), and predict some work-related variables with the profiles. Most importantly, with this profiles we will predict the individual's willingness to telecommute

The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations

The present research was conducted to empirically examine whether death anxiety is the fundamental fear that feeds people’s fear of COVID-19 and leads to increased behavioral compliance with and acceptance of COVID-19 regulations. Results from an online survey of 313 participants from New York City show that death anxiety was, indeed, positively associated with behavioral compliance with, but not acceptance of, COVID-19 regulations via an increased fear of COVID-19. Hence, media campaigns that are designed to increase people’s compliance with restrictive COVID-19 measures by stirring up their death anxiety are likely to meet their target, but they do not necessarily lead to increased public acceptance of the measures taken

A Meta‑analytic Systematic Review and Theory of the Effects of Perceived Listening on Work Outcomes

All procedures, materials, datasets, and codes, including a Word version of our Qualtrics coding survey, R codes, and a README.docx explaining the R codes