Suggesting Context Differences Influence the Impact of Nurses' Psychological Contracts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5934802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Rodwell (0000-0003-1682-0719, Swinburne University of Technology, corresponding author), Julia Ellershaw (Bendigo Health) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci13010040 |
| OpenAlex | W4390662203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 53 |
Inconsistent findings regarding psychological contracts may be due to the variety of contexts studied. Sensemaking processes inform the psychological contract and may explain contextual differences. This study examines the psychological contract components of promises, fulfillment and breach, with negative affectivity, in relation to employee-level outcomes in two related but different contexts. Surveys were completed by 162 hospital nurses and 218 aged care nurses, in a situation where many potential contextual moderators were held relatively constant. Both fulfillment and breach were significant and predicted multiple outcomes in each context. Similar patterns of results for fulfillment and breach suggests there may simultaneously be two forms of discrepancy mechanism underpinning the impacts of the psychological contract: assessment of continuous discrepancy (fulfillment) and assessment of discontinuous discrepancy (breach). Negative affectivity appears to have prevented relationships, particularly between breach and stress, and should be included in future psychological contract research. The consistent relationships of fulfillment and breach with organizational and occupational commitment highlights the importance of career management. The main differences by context were the negative effects of breach and the lack of an effect for promises for aged care nurses, possibly due to prestige and other differences to be investigated in future research
Context (archaeology · Negative affectivity · Occupational stress · Personality · Psychological contract · Emotional Labor in Professions · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being
Discriminant validity of measures of job satisfaction, positive affectivity and negative affectivity
The Impact of Personality on Psychological Contracts.
The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior
When Employees Feel Betrayed
Changing Obligations and the Psychological Contract
Method Variance in Organizational Research
Schema, promise and mutuality
A general approach to representing multifaceted personality constructs
The Impact of Psychological Contract Breach on Work‐related Outcomes
Perceived unfairness and employee health
Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect
The New and Key Roles for Psychological Contract Status and Engagement in Predicting Various Performance Behaviors of Nurses
The Measurement Artifact in the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire
Quality of Life and Well-Being of Older Adults in Nursing Homes
Experiences and views of nursing home nurses in England regarding occupational role and status
The development of psychological contract breach and violation
The psychological contract in retrospect and prospect
Social ideological influences on food consumption, physical activity and BMI
Ageism in Nursing Education
New hire perceptions of their own and their employer's obligations
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |