Jannesari Milad, Wang Zhongming, McCall Jacob, Zheng Boyang
School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ, United States.
Front Psychol. 2017 Nov 24;8:2049. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02049. eCollection 2017.
This research examined the role of psychological availability as a means of psychological engagement between self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) and their host-country nationals (HCNs) colleagues during their work and interaction adjustment. To reveal this process, this study presented the concept of psychological availability, which refers to an individual's belief that they are physically, cognitively, and emotionally ready or confident to engage the self with their colleagues, as a mediator between proactive personality and adjustment. Also, it investigated the relationship between proactive personality and psychological availability and how it was moderated by supportive supervisor relations. We hypothesized, this relationship would be weakened/strengthened when SIEs and HCNs received low/high level of support from their supervisor. This study was conducted as a quantitative study, data was used from 342 SIEs and 342 HCNs working in mainland China. Our finding supported the hypothesis that psychological availability mediated the relationship between proactive personality and their adjustment to an international work environment; in addition, the relationship between proactive personality and psychological availability would be stronger when the level of superiors relations support is high between SIEs and HCNs. This study demonstrated the value of proactive personality as an antecedent effect and supportive supervisor relations as a moderating effect, and investigated how these factors can lead to a sense of psychological availability and boost psychological engagement between SIEs and HCNs in order to improve the adjustment between them.
本研究探讨了心理可及性作为自我外派人员（SIEs）与其东道国同事（HCNs）在工作和互动适应过程中心理参与手段的作用。为揭示这一过程，本研究提出了心理可及性的概念，即个体认为自己在身体、认知和情感上准备好或有信心与同事互动，作为积极主动型人格与适应之间的中介。此外，研究还考察了积极主动型人格与心理可及性之间的关系，以及支持性的上级关系如何对其产生调节作用。我们假设，当自我外派人员和东道国同事从上级获得低/高水平的支持时，这种关系会被削弱/加强。本研究采用定量研究方法，使用了在中国内地工作的342名自我外派人员和342名东道国同事的数据。我们的研究结果支持了以下假设：心理可及性在积极主动型人格与其对国际工作环境的适应之间起中介作用；此外，当自我外派人员和东道国同事之间上级关系的支持水平较高时，积极主动型人格与心理可及性之间的关系会更强。本研究证明了积极主动型人格作为先行效应和支持性上级关系作为调节效应的价值，并研究了这些因素如何导致心理可及感，促进自我外派人员和东道国同事之间的心理参与，以改善他们之间的适应情况。
