Antecedents of Psychological Contract Breach: The Role of Job Demands, Job Resources, and Affect.

ABSTRACT: While it has been shown that psychological contract breach leads to detrimental outcomes, relatively little is known about factors leading to perceptions of breach. We examine if job demands and resources predict breach perceptions. We argue that perceiving high demands elicits negative affect, while perceiving high resources stimulates positive affect. Positive and negative affect, in turn, influence the likelihood that psychological contract breaches are perceived. We conducted two experience sampling studies to test our hypotheses: the first using daily surveys in a sample of volunteers, the second using weekly surveys in samples of volunteers and paid employees. Our results confirm that job demands and resources are associated with negative and positive affect respectively. Mediation a

SUBMITTER: Vantilborgh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4865204 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature