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Employees’ voice is an important source of organizational learning and adaptive change. As algorithmic management is increasingly applied across organizational management processes, an urgent practical question arises: Does it affect employees’ participation in organizational improvement through voice? To address this challenge, drawing on signaling theory, this study examines the differential effects of distinct dimensions of algorithmic management on voice, while also considering work locus of control as a key moderating variable. We collected one-to-one matched data from 351 employees and their supervisors in a large Chinese platform-based enterprise. We tested the hypothesized theoretical model using structural equation modeling and bootstrapping procedures. The results show that algorithmic feedback enhances employees’ felt responsibility for constructive change, which in turn promotes employees’ voice. In contrast, algorithmic directing, algorithmic scheduling, and algorithmic monitoring undermine employees’ felt responsibility for constructive change and thereby inhibit voice. In addition, work locus of control moderates these relationships: employees with an external work locus of control strengthen the negative effects of algorithmic directing, algorithmic scheduling, and algorithmic monitoring, whereas employees with an internal work locus of control strengthen the positive effect of algorithmic feedback. These findings deepen our understanding of how different dimensions of algorithmic management shape voice and offer practical insights for fostering voice in contexts characterized by algorithmic management. Full article

This study examines whether moral identity, perceived environmental responsibility, and locus of control predict green consumption behaviour among young consumers. Adopting a quantitative approach, the study follows an explanatory research design grounded in the positivist paradigm. Primary data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire delivered to respondents aged 18–35 years. Descriptive statistics were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 30, while inferential analysis was conducted using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) via SmartPLS 4. The findings suggest that moral identity and perceived responsibility for environmental damage are significant predictors of green consumption among youth. In contrast, locus of control shows a weak, statistically insignificant association with green consumption behaviour. After controlling for demographic variables, including gender, age, race, education, occupation, and income, the results indicate that only education level and race make significant contributions to the model. Notably, the effect of moral identity becomes insignificant once demographic factors are considered, while locus of control remains insignificant. However, perceived environmental responsibility not only retains its significance but also demonstrates a strengthened effect on green consumption behaviour. These findings highlight the persistence of the attitude–behaviour gap in sustainable consumption among young consumers, particularly in rural contexts. The study contributes to the literature by extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour through the incorporation of moral and psychological constructs within a rural African setting. Practically, the study offers insights for policymakers, educators, and marketers, emphasising the importance of environmental education, moral reinforcement, and targeted behavioural interventions to enhance youth participation in sustainable consumption practices. Full article

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the platform economy, gig workers’ mental health and behavior impact both individual well-being and the long-term sustainability of platform operations. Based on the cognitive appraisal theory of emotion, this study reveals the nonlinear psychological mechanism through which perceived algorithmic management influences gig workers’ behavior. Using hierarchical regression and Bootstrap analysis on data from 385 Chinese gig workers, we examine mediating and moderating effects. The findings indicate that a U-shaped relationship between them: both excessively low and high algorithmic control intensify counterproductive behaviors, while moderate control suppresses them. Negative emotions mediate this effect, uncovering the mechanism by which algorithmic control influences behavior through emotional pathways. Locus of control moderates this relationship: externally controlled workers are more sensitive to algorithmic changes, amplifying the U-shaped effect, while internally controlled workers buffer negative emotions, reducing counterproductive behaviors. This study extends the cognitive appraisal theory of emotion to the context of algorithmic management, revealing the threshold effect of perceived control and the moderating role of individual attribution tendencies. It provides theoretical guidance for platform enterprises to optimize algorithmic design and guide gig workers’ behavior, thereby facilitating the coordinated development of dual sustainability for both gig workers and platform operations. Full article

This study examines how different types of experienced harm influence trust in sellers and platforms in secondhand, platform-mediated markets. Drawing on attribution theory, we distinguish between fulfillment harm and integrity harm and investigate how these two forms of harm differentially affect seller trust and platform trust. Using data from the Consumer Market Evaluation Index on secondhand marketplaces, we find that both fulfillment and integrity harm are negatively associated with seller trust and platform trust compared to no-harm experiences. When both types of harm occur together, trust deterioration becomes more pronounced. Importantly, fulfillment harm is primarily associated with lower seller trust, whereas integrity harm is more strongly related to platform trust. These findings indicate that trust redistribution depends on attributional evaluations regarding causal locus and controllability. This study contributes to the existing literature by demonstrating how attribution processes allocate trust among multiple market actors and by revealing how different types of failures are attributed to these market actors. Moreover, the findings provide practical guidance for platform governance and seller behavior by highlighting the importance of targeted safeguards in sustaining trust in platform-mediated marketplaces. Full article

This study explores the psychosocial factors that predispose young e-scooter users (18 to 24 years) to engage in illegal speeding by adopting a theory-driven approach across the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The study, based on survey data of 474 participants, and analyzed with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), found that emotional regulation and internal locus of control predict speeding intention and behavior and are significantly negative (β = +0.66 and β = −0.52, respectively). Satisfactory robustness was assured by model fit indices (0.93 CFI, 0.91 TLI, 0.045 RMSEA, and 0.071 SRMR). Findings indicate that the effect of emotional regulation is more on attitude and perception of behavioral control, but the connection between self-regulation and speeding intention is mediated by internal control. The inclusion of psychosocial variables in the TPB contributes to the behavioral theory of micro-mobility contexts and the behavioral study of sustainable-mobility research to emotional and cognitive aspects of risk behavior. The policy suggestions include incorporating short emotion-management courses into rider-training applications, collaborating with scooter-sharing institutions on incentive-based safety interventions, and developing interventions that promote responsibility, self-control, and emotional sensitivity among young people. These results reiterate the fact that psychological antecedents of risky riding require attention to achieve socially and environmentally sustainable urban mobility. Full article

Focusing on the common problems of phase-locked loop dependence, multiple current sensor requirements, a large number of controllers, and complex settings in traditional parallel active power filter (APF) control methods, this paper proposes a harmonic compensation control strategy based on an improved proportional resonant (PR) controller. The proposed method introduces an instantaneous power theory to construct a reference current model, which relies solely on grid voltage and current signals, does not require load-side current detection and phase-locked loop modules, and effectively simplifies the sensor configuration and system structure. At the same time, compared with the traditional solution that requires PR modules to be configured for each order of harmonics, this study only uses one set of PR controllers for fundamental current tracking, which has advantages in terms of compactness and computing resource occupation. To guide the controller parameter setting, this paper systematically discusses the influence of changes in K_p and K_r on pole distribution and dynamic performance based on discrete domain modeling and root locus analysis methods. The results were verified on the MATLAB/Simulink simulation platform and the 1 kVA experimental platform and compared with the traditional control method that requires the use of phase-locked loops (PLLs), load current sensors, and multiple PR controllers. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method has achieved a certain degree of optimization in terms of harmonic suppression effect, dynamic response performance, and system structure complexity. Full article

This study, based on regulatory focus theory and internal locus of control theory, constructs a moderated mediation model to explore how perceived positive workplace gossip indirectly affects employee creativity through promotion-oriented cognitive crafting and risk-taking behavior. Through the analysis of four-wave, two-source survey data from 463 employees, this study found that perceived positive gossip can stimulate promotion-oriented cognitive crafting in the gossiped-about employees, which in turn promotes risk-taking behavior and ultimately enhances creativity. Furthermore, internal locus of control plays a significant moderating role in this mechanism. The gossiped-about employees with a high internal locus of control are more inclined to respond positively when faced with positive gossip, exhibiting higher promotion-oriented cognitive crafting and risk-taking behavior. Overall, this research advances the understanding of positive gossip’s functional consequences and offers practical insights for fostering organizational creativity. Full article

Perceived scarcity can significantly shape consumer behavior, particularly regarding luxury consumption during economic downturns. This study examines how perceived scarcity influences the preference for luxury goods and assesses the mediating role of perceived control in this relationship. Employing a multi-method approach that combines questionnaire surveys and bias adjustment techniques, this research captures the complex interplay between scarcity cues, perceived control, and consumption behaviors. The findings indicate that when consumers experience scarcity, they are more inclined to seek out luxury goods as a means to restore a sense of psychological balance. Perceived control emerges as a key mediating factor, helping explain why scarcity leads to a heightened interest in luxury products. This mediation suggests that consumers turn to luxury items not solely due to external constraints, but also as a way to reassert control over their circumstances. By integrating compensatory control theory and considering variations in locus of control and perceived economic mobility, this study provides a nuanced understanding of the psychological mechanisms underpinning luxury consumption in resource-constrained contexts. These insights advance theoretical perspectives on scarcity effects and offer practical implications for marketers and policymakers aiming to engage consumers responsibly and effectively in challenging economic environments. Full article

Speech is a highly skilled motor activity that shares a core problem with other motor skills: how to reduce the massive degrees of freedom (DOF) to the extent that the central nervous control and learning of complex motor movements become possible. It is hypothesized in this paper that a key solution to the DOF problem is to eliminate most of the temporal degrees of freedom by synchronizing concurrent movements, and that this is performed in speech through the syllable—a mechanism that synchronizes consonantal, vocalic, and laryngeal gestures. Under this hypothesis, syllable articulation is enabled by three basic mechanisms: target approximation, edge-synchronization, and tactile anchoring. This synchronization theory of the syllable also offers a coherent account of coarticulation, as it explicates how various coarticulation-related phenomena, including coarticulation resistance, locus, locus equation, diphone, etc., are byproducts of syllable formation. It also provides a theoretical basis for understanding how suprasegmental events such as tone, intonation, phonation, etc., are aligned to segmental events in speech. It may also have implications for understanding vocal learning, speech disorders, and motor control in general. Full article

Based on self-regulation theory, this paper constructs two paths through which entrepreneurial fear of failure affects entrepreneurial exit intentions, and explores the moderating effect of the locus of control. We analyze a sample of 308 entrepreneurs from small and medium-sized private enterprises located in Southeast China. The results shown that entrepreneurial fear of failure not only stimulates entrepreneurial identity centrality in a self-regulated driving state but also leads to emotional exhaustion in a state of self-regulated depletion, with two effects on entrepreneurial exit intentions. The facilitating effect of entrepreneurial fear of failure on entrepreneurial identity centrality is stronger for internals than externals, whereas the facilitating effect of entrepreneurial fear of failure on emotional exhaustion is stronger for externals than internals. This research provides a theoretical basis and managerial insights for using entrepreneurial fear of failure to motivate its promoting effects and inhibit its hindering effects on sustainable entrepreneurship. Full article

Older women without children, like all older adults, evaluate their lives and face a conflict between despair and ego integrity as proposed by Erikson’s theory of development. Their uniqueness lies in their deviation from the societal norm of parenthood prevalent in pro-natalist societies such as Israel. This study aims to explore how older childless women evaluate their lives. Using a qualitative approach, 20 semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with women over 60 years of age who do not have children. Three main themes emerged from the participants’ responses: their experiences as women without children in a pro-natalist society, the significance of freedom in their lives, and their life experiences from conflicting perspectives—an internal and external locus of control. The study’s findings demonstrate that older childless women adeptly utilize different perspectives across various aspects of their lives, contributing to ego integrity, contrary to the prevailing societal notion that in the absence of children, women are damaged and lack identity. It is conceivable that other segments of the older adult population, diverging from mainstream societal norms, may similarly leverage these different perspectives to uphold their ego. Full article

An essentialist view of gender and an individualistic concept of subjectivity have distanced psychological theories from emancipatory feminist projects. In Brazil, similar to some other psychological orientations, the behavior-analytic field has sought an interface with feminism. The anti-essentialist vein of radical behaviorism underpins the early movement toward feminism. This essay aims to expand the area of contact with feminism through a theoretical proposal for understanding women’s subjectivity inspired by Brazilian behavior-analytic literature. From a contextualized, multidimensional, pluralized, and politicized view of subjectivity, women’s subjectivation is forged in a tripartite complex of body, person, and “self”, whose relative unity is susceptible to changes and conflicts. In a patriarchal, racist, and cis-heteronormative society, such as the Brazilian one, subjectivation is also an oppressive process. Nevertheless, the essay demonstrates that women’s subjectivation can be a process of emancipatory liberation. This possibility is glimpsed within a virtuous dialectical circuit between disruptive verbal communities (uncommitted to institutional, hierarchical, and oppressive social control) and subversive subjectivities. Thus, behavior-analytic psychology has theoretical tools to situate the process of women’s subjectivation not as a locus of depoliticization but as a crucial ally in constructing a more equitable and just society, as envisioned by feminism. Full article

Although tourists’ judgments and interpretations are pivotal to fathom the essence behind their behavior toward tourism destination brands, there is a lack of investigation into theories that deal with tourists’ decisions and interpretations. To address this issue, this study investigates two critical theories in the tourism marketing literature: attribution and locus of control theories in the destination branding context. These theories heavily influence tourists’ perceptions and interpretations of the destination brands. Thus, using the PRISMA methodology (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses), we inductively evaluated and synthesized the literature on attribution theory and destination branding from highly indexed journals in the ABDC list index. The research encompasses the issues of “What we know?”, “What we do not know?”, and “Where should we be heading?”. This study will better grasp the implications of attribution and locus of control theories in the literature on tourism marketing. The study would also explore how this hypothesis affects travelers’ assessment and interpretation of destination brands. The study found the potential to assess the implications of attribution and locus of control theories in the tourism marketing literature. The research would provide insights into how these ideas affect tourists’ evaluation and interpretation of destination brands. It would also offer other techniques that marketers may employ to influence consumer behavior. Full article

Background: In addition to searching for effective methods of treatment, interventions are sought to support well-being, quality of life, mental health, and recovery. Sailing has its specific features, including task orientation, challenges, contact with people, and nature. This specificity may be treated as a potential therapeutic factor, but it is also likely that people with certain psychological characteristics are involved in it. Therefore, the study aimed to assess some psychological features of women with cancer experience who decided to take part in the Onco-Cruise (Polish: Onko-Rejs). Methods: Participants were 56 women (M = 46.73; SD = 9.21). We used NEO-FFI, the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, and The Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale. Results: Onco-Cruises participants were characterized by a high level of extraversion (M = 32.48; SD = 7.02; sten score M = 7.21; Mo = 7), openness (M = 31.50; SD = 6.31; sten score M = 7.41; Mo = 8), low neuroticism (M = 21.62; SD = 9.33; sten score M = 4.96), predominance of present hedonistic (M = 12.55, SD = 1.46) and future time perspective (M = 11.39; SD = 2.67), and the internal health locus of control (M = 23.25, SD = 5.43). Conclusion: Group sailing can be favorable for broadly understood health and cancer recovery, but people who choose this activity have certain psychological predispositions, especially indicating high needs for stimulation. Permanent features should be taken into account when proposing various interventions for oncology patients to best suit them to their natural possibilities and preferences and, thus, make them most effective. Full article

This study examines navigating work careers through self-concept (locus of control and work values ethic) and job satisfaction within the postindustrial work environment of the 21st century. Career construction theory conceptualizes one’s career as a process of responding to a changing environment through self-concepts to more actively construct their careers. The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic further highlights the importance of individuals’ self-leading their work journeys. The study indicates that work values ethic is an important variable in further explaining the relationship between locus of control and job satisfaction in our sample. When the effect of work values ethic is removed, the association between locus of control and job satisfaction is insignificant. We expect this research to spur further efforts by individuals to improve their understanding of the intricacies among their intrapersonal traits, needs, and abilities to better navigate their work careers with application to newly defined workplaces as a result of COVID-19. Our results also inform the practice of career education and counseling. Full article