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While the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered individuals’ lives worldwide, it has been perhaps especially disruptive to the lives of sojourners as many have been unable to return h...

Building on prior research (Cable, Gino, & Staats, 2013) showing that an orientation program that emphasizes authentic self-expression (ASE) may facilitate newcomer adjustment, the present longitud...

By integrating a proactive perspective and trait activation theory, we build a moderated mediation model to explain how and when sojourners’ proactive personality promotes their organization citize...

We present the results of two studies utilizing the novel theoretical perspective of individual adaptability theory in the study of cross- cultural adjustment. Study 1, involving 156 international ...

This research aims to synergize the socialization tradition and the intervention tradition on studying newcomer adjustment. Using an innovative approach to newcomer orientation, called “Realistic O...

Researchers have long been aware that individuals can be highly motivated to fake on non-cognitive measures when applying for jobs. Traditionally, faking has been referred to as socially desirable responding (SDR), which was tapped by SDR scales such as the Impression-Management (IM) and the Self-deceptive Enhancement (SDE) (Zerbe & Paulhus, 1987). However, researchers have shown that SDR scales are not valid faking measures as we would like (McGrath, 2010; Li & Bagger, 2006). In response, researchers have developed alternative measures attempting to measure faking objectively such as the bogus inventory (BS; Anderson, Warner, & Cassie, 1984) and the over-claiming questionnaire (OCQ; Paulhus & Bruce, 1990). However, research on these new measures has been limited, and their validities as faking measures have not been established yet. The present research aims to validate the objective faking measures against the faking criterion operationalized through within-subjects score changes. Using a true experimen...

We conducted an exploratory longitudinal field experiment to further examine the utility of an innovative approach to newcomer orientation, called "Realistic Orientation Program for Entry Stress" (...

Expanding upon data of Fan and Wanous’ (2008) longitudinal field experiment, this research investigates attribute-treatment interactions in cross-cultural training. Drawing on the person-environment fit theory, we hypothesized that sojourners with high perceived social self-efficacy (PSSE) should have better fit with a theory-driven cross-cultural coping orientation program, called “Realistic Orientation Program for Entry Stress” (ROPES) than low-PSSE sojourners. As a result, the treatment effects (the ROPES program vs. a traditional cross-cultural training program) should be more positive for high-PSSE sojourners than for low-PSSE sojourners. Seventy-two new graduate students from Asia entering a large U.S. public university were randomly assigned to either a ROPES program or a traditional cross-cultural training program and were assessed pre-entry and multiple times post-entry. The results strongly supported the hypothesized attribute-treatment interactions. Theoretical contributions and practical impli...