Manon Eluère, Jean-Philippe Heuzé, Alex J. Benson, Chloé Leprince, Valérian Cécé, Simon Isserte, Luc J. Martin
{"title":"A longitudinal investigation of how intercultural competence and cultural diversity relate to teamwork in professional women's football","authors":"Manon Eluère, Jean-Philippe Heuzé, Alex J. Benson, Chloé Leprince, Valérian Cécé, Simon Isserte, Luc J. Martin","doi":"10.1111/apps.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars studying cultural diversity in groups have largely overemphasized implications for objective outcomes, overlooking relevant processes that influence those outcomes (i.e., teamwork) and team member competencies related to cultural diversity (i.e., intercultural competence). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to longitudinally investigate the relationship between two indicators of cultural diversity (i.e., national variety and language disparity), team members' intercultural competence, and perceptions of teamwork. A total of 501 professional women football players (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 22.54 years, ± 4.46) from 21 teams across the top leagues in France (D1 = 177; D2 = 324) completed questionnaires pertaining to intercultural competence and teamwork, with 342 responding at all three time-points. Measures of national cultural variety and language disparity were computed using the Blau index and Matiti index, respectively. Using multilevel latent growth curve modeling, results showed that intercultural competence tended to be positively associated with perceptions of teamwork and that these relationships became stronger in teams that were more diverse. The results also indicated that this positive effect varied as a function of the type of cultural diversity being considered and that the relationship patterns were stable across time. For example, intercultural competence only positively predicted teamwork execution in teams with high levels of national–cultural variety. Such nuanced findings are discussed in detail herein, with implications to the literature and future research directions being put forward. Further, major strengths pertaining to the elite nature and size of the sample and the focus on women's sport are emphasized.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does feeling envied lead to knowledge sharing or hiding? A social functional perspective on authentic and hubristic pride","authors":"Xiang Cheng, Fangjun Li","doi":"10.1111/apps.70086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Beyond interpersonal concerns and anxieties, employees who are envied may also perceive self-advantages and self-affirmation, which profoundly shape how they interact with colleagues. Drawing on the social functional perspective on emotions, we propose that being envied can simultaneously promote knowledge sharing through authentic pride and induce knowledge hiding through hubristic pride. We further argue that a mastery climate that emphasizes learning and knowledge strengthens the former pathway, whereas a performance climate that highlights competition and comparison amplifies the latter. Evidence from a vignette-based experiment (Study 1) and three multi-wave, time-lagged surveys (Studies 2a, 2b, and 3)—involving 1077 full-time employees—generally supports the proposed dual-pathway model. These findings deepen our understanding of envied employees' interpersonal behaviors and offer practical insights into leveraging their human capital.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Newcomers' stress and organizational socialization: The role of self-efficacy, learning, and supervisors' information sharing","authors":"Ying Ma","doi":"10.1111/apps.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Individuals transitioning into a new organization are often placed in a high-anxiety situation, which can hinder their ability to quickly integrate into the organization. However, studies that directly apply a stress perspective to socialization-related phenomena remain scarce. Based on social cognition theory, I examined how and when newcomers' task and relationship stress affect their adjustment during organizational socialization. In Study 1, I collected paired data from 259 newcomers and their direct supervisors via an online survey company for academic research. The findings showed that task self-efficacy and task learning serially mediated the effect of newcomers' task stress on job performance and turnover intention. Relationship self-efficacy and relationship learning serially mediate the effect of newcomers' relationship stress on social integration and turnover intention. In addition, the results supported the moderating role of supervisors' information sharing, as it weakened the effect of newcomers' stress on self-efficacy. In Study 2, paired data from 437 newcomers and their direct supervisors were collected from three technology information companies. The analysis results largely supported the research hypotheses and further strengthened the conclusions. Theoretical contributions, practical implications, and directions for future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}