A stress model of psychological contract violation among ethnic minority employees.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Kong, Dejun Tony Jolly, Phillip M.
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	OBJECTIVES Integrating the transactional theory of stress and coping and research on discrimination perception/attribution, we propose a stress model of psychological contract (PC) violation among ethnic minority employees. We argue that ethnic minority employees tend to appraise PC violation as a threat and attribute it to personal ethnic discrimination (as well as low organizational trustworthiness), which in turn leads ethnic minority employees to engage in fear-driven silence as a form of emotion-based withdrawal coping. METHOD We conducted two survey studies (Studies 1 and 2), an experimental study (Study 3), and a supplementary meta-analysis of the three studies. RESULTS We found support for our model. Ethnic minority employees' perception of personal ethnic discrimination, rather than their perception of low organizational trustworthiness, translated PC violation to fear-driven silence. Our result patterns remained the same when we controlled for neuroticism and social desirability. CONCLUSIONS By delineating ethnic minorities' appraisal/attribution of and coping with PC violation, the current research advances the literatures on both PC and ethnic discrimination. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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DOI	10.1037/cdp0000235
PubMed reference number	30382708
Journal	Medline
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/downloads/tx920fx79t
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000235
Journal	Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article