Professor Yanjun Guan's Outputs (70)

Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research (2018)
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Guan, Y., Arthur, M., Khapova, S., Hall, R., & Lord, R. (2019). Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 110(Part B), 390--402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.05.013

The concept of boundaryless careers characterizes emerging career patterns that are less dependent on traditional organizational career management. Based on an evidence-based review of literature on the relationship between career boundarylessness an... Read More about Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research.

Acculturation Orientations and Chinese Student Sojourners’ Career Adaptability: The Roles of Career Exploration and Cultural Distance (2017)
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Guan, Y., Liu, S., Guo, M., Li, M., Wu, M., Chen, S., …Tian, L. (2018). Acculturation Orientations and Chinese Student Sojourners’ Career Adaptability: The Roles of Career Exploration and Cultural Distance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 104, 228-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.11.008

Drawing on career construction theory and Berry's acculturation model, this study examined how student sojourners' acculturation orientations predicted their career exploration and career adaptability. We conducted a survey study among Chinese studen... Read More about Acculturation Orientations and Chinese Student Sojourners’ Career Adaptability: The Roles of Career Exploration and Cultural Distance.

How Long Can Cultural Events Elevate Group Identity Salience? The Mediating Role of Affective Adaptation (2017)
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Chen, S., Hui, C., Ng, J., & Guan, Y. (2019). How Long Can Cultural Events Elevate Group Identity Salience? The Mediating Role of Affective Adaptation. Self and Identity, 18(2), 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2017.1391874

Cultural events have been found to make one’s group identity temporarily more salient. How long such an elevated sense of identity can endure remains, however, an empirical question. Building upon the model of affective adaptation, we propose that th... Read More about How Long Can Cultural Events Elevate Group Identity Salience? The Mediating Role of Affective Adaptation.

On the relation between social dominance orientation and environmentalism: A 25-nation study (2017)
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Milfont, T., Bain, P., Kashima, Y., Corral-Verdugo, V., Pasquali, C., Johansson, L., …Einarsdóttir, G. (2018). On the relation between social dominance orientation and environmentalism: A 25-nation study. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(7), 802-814. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617722832

Approval of hierarchy and inequality in society indexed by social dominance orientation (SDO) extends to support for human dominance over the natural world. We tested this negative association between SDO and environmentalism and the validity of the... Read More about On the relation between social dominance orientation and environmentalism: A 25-nation study.

Understanding the trait basis of career adaptability: A two-wave mediation analysis among Chinese university students (2017)
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Guan, Y., Dai, X., Gong, Q., Deng, Y., Hou, Y., Dong, Z., …Lai, X. (2017). Understanding the trait basis of career adaptability: A two-wave mediation analysis among Chinese university students. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 101, 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.04.004

To investigate the mechanisms through which the basic traits (big-five personality and approach/avoidance traits) predict career adaptability, and develop a more systematic view of the components of career adaptivity, we conducted a two-wave survey s... Read More about Understanding the trait basis of career adaptability: A two-wave mediation analysis among Chinese university students.

The Added Value of World views over Self-Views: Predicting Modest Behaviour in Eastern and Western Cultures (2017)
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Chen, S., Ng, J., Buchtel, E., Guan, Y., Deng, H., & Bond, M. (2017). The Added Value of World views over Self-Views: Predicting Modest Behaviour in Eastern and Western Cultures. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(4), 723-749. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12196

Personality research has been focused on different aspects of the self, including traits, attitudes, beliefs, goals, and motivation. These aspects of the self are used to explain and predict social behaviour. The present research assessed generalized... Read More about The Added Value of World views over Self-Views: Predicting Modest Behaviour in Eastern and Western Cultures.

Modeling dynamics in career construction: Reciprocal relationship between future work self and career exploration (2017)
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Guan, Y., Zhuang, M., Cai, Z., Ding, Y., Wang, Y., Huang, Z., & Lai, X. (2017). Modeling dynamics in career construction: Reciprocal relationship between future work self and career exploration. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 101, 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.04.003

In extant research, scholars have treated proactive career behavior (e.g., career exploration) primarily as a consequence of future work self. Yet, emerging evidence provides support for a relationship in the opposite direction, suggesting that caree... Read More about Modeling dynamics in career construction: Reciprocal relationship between future work self and career exploration.

Conservatives are more reluctant to give and receive apologies than liberals (2017)
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Hornsey, M., Schumann, K., Bain, P., Blumen, S., Chen, S., Gómez, A., …Wohl, M. (2017). Conservatives are more reluctant to give and receive apologies than liberals. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(7), 827-835. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617691096

This article examines the proposition that conservatives will be less willing than liberals to apologize and less likely to forgive after receiving an apology. In Study 1, we found evidence for both relationships in a nine-nation survey. In Study 2,... Read More about Conservatives are more reluctant to give and receive apologies than liberals.

A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance (2016)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Attitudes toward older adults: A matter of cultural values or personal values? (2015)
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Zhang, X., Xing, C., Guan, Y., Song, X., Melloy, R., Wang, F., & Jin, X. (2016). Attitudes toward older adults: A matter of cultural values or personal values?. Psychology and Aging, 31(1), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000068

The current research aimed to address the inconsistent findings regarding cultural differences in attitudes toward older adults by differentiating the effects of personal and cultural values. In Study 1, we used data from the sixth wave of the World... Read More about Attitudes toward older adults: A matter of cultural values or personal values?.

Predicting Chinese human resource managers' strategic competence: Roles of identity, career variety, organizational support and career adaptability (2015)
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Guan, Y., Yang, W., Zhou, X., Tian, Z., & Eves, A. (2016). Predicting Chinese human resource managers' strategic competence: Roles of identity, career variety, organizational support and career adaptability. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 92, 116-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2015.11.012

Based on career construction theory, the predictors of human resource managers' strategic competence in the Chinese context were examined. Results from a survey administered to Chinese HR managers (N = 220) showed that professional identification, ca... Read More about Predicting Chinese human resource managers' strategic competence: Roles of identity, career variety, organizational support and career adaptability.

Do people’s world views matter? The why and how (2015)
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Chen, S., Lam, B., Wu, W., Ng, J., Buchtel, E., Guan, Y., & Deng, H. (2016). Do people’s world views matter? The why and how. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(5), 743-765. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000061

Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated the role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, and li... Read More about Do people’s world views matter? The why and how.

Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world (2015)
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Bain, P. G., Milfont, T. L., Kashima, Y., Bilewicz, M., Doron, G., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., …Saviolidis, N. M. (2016). Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world. Nature Climate Change, 6(2), 154-157. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2814

Personal and political action on climate change is traditionally thought to be motivated by people accepting its reality and importance. However, convincing the public that climate change is real faces powerful ideological obstacles1, 2, 3, 4, and cl... Read More about Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world.

Career adaptability and perceived overqualification: Testing a dual-path model among Chinese human resource management professionals. (2015)
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Yang, W., Guan, Y., She, Z., Lai, X., & Lockwood, A. (2015). Career adaptability and perceived overqualification: Testing a dual-path model among Chinese human resource management professionals. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 90, 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2015.08.007

Based on career construction theory, the current research examined the relationship between career adaptability and perceived overqualification among a sample of Chinese human resource management professionals (N = 220). The results of a survey study... Read More about Career adaptability and perceived overqualification: Testing a dual-path model among Chinese human resource management professionals..

Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations (2015)
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Chen, S., Lam, B., Hui, B., Ng, J., Mak, W., Guan, Y., …Lau, V. (2016). Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(2), 302-331. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039647

The influences of globalization have permeated various aspects of life in contemporary society, from technical innovations, economic development, and lifestyles, to communication patterns. The present research proposed a construct termed global orien... Read More about Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations.

Immorality East and West: Are immoral behaviors especially harmful, or especially uncultured? (2015)
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Buchtel, E., Guan, Y., Peng, Q., Su, Y., Sang, B., Chen, S., & Bond, M. (2015). Immorality East and West: Are immoral behaviors especially harmful, or especially uncultured?. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(10), 1382-1394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215595606

What makes some acts immoral? Although Western theories of morality often define harmful behaviors as centrally immoral, whether this is applicable to other cultures is still under debate. In particular, Confucianism emphasizes civility as fundamenta... Read More about Immorality East and West: Are immoral behaviors especially harmful, or especially uncultured?.