Outputs (5)

A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance (2016)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Guan, Y., Wu, C., Erdogan, B., Bauer, T., & Yao, X. (2018). A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance. Journal of Management, 44(8), 3288-3310. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316668237

Theories of perceived overqualification have tended to focus on employees’ job-related responses to account for effects on performance. We offer an alternative perspective and theorize that perceived overqualification could influence work performance... Read More about A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance.

Self-referent and Other-referent Career Successes, Career Satisfaction and Turnover Intention among Chinese Employees: The Role of Achievement Motivation (2016)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Jiang, P., Wang, Z., Mo, Z., & Zhu, F. (2017). Self-referent and Other-referent Career Successes, Career Satisfaction and Turnover Intention among Chinese Employees: The Role of Achievement Motivation. Journal of Career Development, 44(5), 379-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845316657181

Based on the social comparison theory, this research examined how self-referent and other-referent career successes predict career satisfaction and turnover intention among a sample of Chinese employees (N = 299). It was found that both self-referent... Read More about Self-referent and Other-referent Career Successes, Career Satisfaction and Turnover Intention among Chinese Employees: The Role of Achievement Motivation.

Making sense of positive self-evaluations in China: The role of sociocultural change (2016)
Journal Article
Zhang, R., Noels, K., Guan, Y., & Weng, L. (2017). Making sense of positive self-evaluations in China: The role of sociocultural change. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47(1), 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2214

Recent research points to Chinese people's elevated tendency to make positive self-evaluations, despite the general claim that East Asians do not self-enhance. We present three studies in support of a novel prediction that sociocultural change in Chi... Read More about Making sense of positive self-evaluations in China: The role of sociocultural change.

Contextual effect of wealth on independence: an examination through regional differences in China (2016)
Journal Article
Takemura, K., Hamamura, T., Guan, Y., & Suzuki, S. (2016). Contextual effect of wealth on independence: an examination through regional differences in China. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00384

The current study disentangled two different effects of wealth on psychological tendency toward independence: one is an effect exerted at the individual level (i.e., being rich) and the other one is a contextual effect (i.e., being surrounded by rich... Read More about Contextual effect of wealth on independence: an examination through regional differences in China.

Career success criteria and locus of control as indicators of adaptive readiness in the career adaptation model (2016)
Journal Article
Zhou, W., Guan, Y., Xin, L., Mak, M., & Deng, Y. (2016). Career success criteria and locus of control as indicators of adaptive readiness in the career adaptation model. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 94, 124-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2016.02.015

The present research had two goals. The first goal was to identify additional individual characteristics that may contribute to adaptive readiness. The second goal was to test if these characteristics fit the career adaptation model of readiness to r... Read More about Career success criteria and locus of control as indicators of adaptive readiness in the career adaptation model.