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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".

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Prof. Dr. Shinyi Carol Lin

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Master Program of Business Administration, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung City 403514, Taiwan
Interests: psychological well-being; organizational behavior; training and development

Prof. Dr. Shu-Hui Chuang

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Department of Business Administration, Asia University, Taichung City 41354, Taiwan
Interests: consumer behavior; Internet marketing; customer relationship management; knowledge management

Prof. Dr. Chih-Hung Wang

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Graduate Program of Sustainable Tourism and Recreation Management, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung City 403514, Taiwan
Interests: organizational behavior; psychology; marketing; human resource management; consumer/tourist behavior in tourism

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Dear Colleagues,

The practical criteria for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) are socially responsible for cultivating and maintaining sustainability. For all levels of communities and organizations, the persistent importance of motivation and behavior resulting from psychological factors is greatly recognized. To gain multiple insights and understanding of drivers to achieve sustainability, contemporary research including case studies and empirical behavior analyses in all environmental, social, and governance dimensions has been the trend and imperative to sustainable issues. Behavioral science and psychological drivers pertaining to the organizational level emphasize the significance of sustainability issues.

Organizational behavior is a well-known field that studies the connected impacts that individuals, groups, and structural units have, and those who behave and act within organizations for the purpose of improving organizational effectiveness and exploring potentials. This Special Issue of Sustainability, entitled “Organizational Behavior and Psychological Research for Sustainability”, focuses on three hierarchical cognitions—know-what, know-how, and know-why—to advance organizational behavior and psychological research for managerial and training topics in industries and academia. Furthermore, this Special Issue welcomes both theoretical contributions and empirical studies (qualitative and/or quantitative), which lends support to holistic understanding of sustainability in diverse fields. Potential research topics/themes may include but are not limited to the following:

Human resource training and development for sustainable issues
Sustainable development goals and practical strategies
Group/ team behavior
Psychological well-being
Personalities, perceptions, and values
Psychological attributes and performance evaluation
Diversity in organizations
Organizational culture
Decision making and measurable outcome/performance
Organizational change and competitiveness

Prof. Dr. Shinyi Carol Lin
Prof. Dr. Shu-Hui Chuang
Prof. Dr. Chih-Hung Wang
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15 pages, 691 KiB

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Sustainable Innovation and Firm Performance Driven by FinTech Policies: Moderating Effect of Capital Adequacy Ratio

by Jian-Hang Wang, Yu-Hsien Wu, Phil Yihsing Yang and Hsiang-Yi Hsu

Sustainability 2023, 15(11), 8572; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118572 - 25 May 2023

Cited by 2 | Viewed by 2276

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This study empirically investigated the role played by government policy in the financial industry in promoting sustainable innovation, business performance, and risk management. An original dataset, comprising data from the Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ), Taiwan Patent Search System, and company annual reports from the period 2015–2019 was used to analyze the effects of government policy on the financial industry in Taiwan. The research results showed that a firm’s sustainable commitment is conducive to its business growth and does not increase its risk in the financial industry. The financial industry can report on FinTech news that highlights business growth, while companies with high capital adequacy rates are better equipped to manage the risks associated with innovation commitment. Financial companies are suggested to engage in sustainable innovation and thus improve their profitability. In addition, policymakers should mandate that financial companies increase their capital adequacy ratios, improve their risk-bearing capacity, and maintain financial market stability. Full article

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Effect of Hotel Employees’ Organizational Politics Perception on Organizational Silence, Organizational Cynicism, and Innovation Resistance

by Ki-Seoung Lee, Yoon-Seo Kim and Hyoung-Chul Shin

Sustainability 2023, 15(5), 4651; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054651 - 6 Mar 2023

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This study investigates the relationship between hotel employees’ perceptions of organizational politics, organizational silence, organizational cynicism, and innovation resistance. For this purpose, subjects (n = 351, 235 men and 116 women) from four-star hotels in Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi-do, and Jeju-do in South Korea were surveyed. The following four hypotheses were presented to achieve this study’s goal. First, the perception of organizational politics has a positive effect on organizational silence. Second, organizational silence positively affects organizational cynicism. Third, organizational silence has a positive effect on innovation resistance. Fourth, organizational cynicism positively affects innovation resistance. The results of hypothesis testing reveal that all hypotheses except for the fourth one are accepted. This study’s findings suggest that hotels should provide a work environment that is free from unfair organizational political activities. Full article

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17 pages, 613 KiB

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Sustainable Career Development for College Students: An Inquiry into SCCT-Based Career Decision-Making

by Xin-Hai Wang, Hsuan-Po Wang and Wen-Ya Lai

Sustainability 2023, 15(1), 426; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010426 - 27 Dec 2022

Cited by 7 | Viewed by 4631

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As an important factor in predicting the future sustainable development of college students, career decision-making (CDM) has attracted widespread attention in the field of vocational education. Based on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this study proposed a moderated mediation model to investigate the relationship between work values and CDM, the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE), and the moderating effect of career goals. A total of 1300 questionnaires were collected using the snowball sampling method, and 1203 valid questionnaires were collected. The differences in background variables were examined by the independent sample t-test, and the validity of the research hypotheses was tested by SEM and multigroup analysis. The results of the study showed the following: (1) There were significant differences in CDM performance among college students of different genders and different grades. (2) CDMSE plays a partial mediating role between work values and career decision-making. (3) Career goals play a moderating role between CDMSE and CDM, and compared with low-level career goals, high-level career goals can promote the impact of CDMSE on CDM. In the future, colleges and universities can promote college students’ CDM by shaping work values, improving CDMSE, and guiding the establishment of career goals. Full article

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Modeling the Influence of Paternalistic Leadership and Personality Characteristics on Alienation and Organizational Culture in the Aviation Industry of Pakistan: The Mediating Role of Cohesiveness

by Farrukh Shahzad, Muhammad Farrukh Shahzad, Azer Dilanchiev and Muhammad Irfan

Sustainability 2022, 14(22), 15473; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215473 - 21 Nov 2022

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Espousing the theoretical framework of singling theory and social exchange theory, the current study examines the less explored topic of paternalistic leadership. This study contributed by scrutinizing the relationship between paternalistic leadership, personality characteristics, alienation, and organizational climate through the mediating role of cohesiveness. A convenience sampling technique was applied for this study. Data was collected through an adopted questionnaire from 723 respondents. A variance-based structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used for testing the proposed structural model. Results revealed that paternalistic leadership and personality characteristics significantly and positively impact alienation and organizational climate. Furthermore, cohesiveness mediates the relationship between personality characteristics, paternalistic leadership, alienation, and organizational climate. Based on research findings, essential theoretical and managerial aspects with major policy-making implications are discussed in the study. Full article

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The Influence of Psychological Distance on the Challenging Moral Decision Support of Sports Majors in Internet of Things and Machine Learning

by Xingxing Zong, Lian Wang, Qingyuan Xie and Mariusz Lipowski

Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12115; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912115 - 25 Sep 2022

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This work intends to examine the influence of different dimensions of psychological distance on the moral decision-making of sports college students in sports dilemmas under different learning pressure conditions, and to further investigate the relationship between psychological distance and moral decision-making. The research on the influencing factors of moral decision-making of sports majors can effectively help to understand the moral cognition level of the group, and provide a reference for the interpretation of athletes’ moral anomie behavior, thereby enriching the content of the moral quality education of athletes. This work intends to study the impact of psychological distance on the moral decision support of sports college students in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning. Psychological distance in the machine learning environment may affect individuals’ understanding and cognition of events and, to a certain extent, can change students’ cognition and judgment of events. IoT and machine learning environments are chosen as the foundation. The learning pressure of college students majoring in physical education is a variable. A questionnaire survey and experimental design are used to test the influence of different degrees of learning pressure, social distance, and spatial distance on the moral decision-making of physical education college students in the sports dilemma. The dimensions of the psychological distance of physical education (PE) students are analyzed under different stress conditions and their impact on the moral decision-making of PE students. This experiment adopts a mixed experimental design of 3 learning stresses (no stress vs. moderate stress vs. high stress) × 2 social distances (self vs. others) × 2 spatial distances (Beijing vs. France). The results show that the main effect of social distance is significant. When the self is the decision-making subject, individuals tend to make more moral decisions. There is a significant interaction between social distance and learning pressure. In a stress-free and high-stress environment, individuals make a significant increase in the number of moral decisions when faced with self-centered decision-making. Now, moral decision-making and its consequences are important for college students majoring in sports. The results of their moral decision-making in the field of education directly reflect the image of the individual and even the institution. Full article

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Temperament, Character and Cognitive Emotional Regulation in the Latent Profile Classification of Smartphone Addiction in University Students

by Dong-Hyun Choi and Young-Su Jung

Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11643; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811643 - 16 Sep 2022

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The frequency of smartphone use has been increasing since COVID-19, and the problem of smartphone addiction is expected to intensify in modern society where smartphones have diverse uses. According to a recent study, cognitive emotional regulation strategies have proven to be effective in deepening or alleviating smartphone addiction. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of smartphone addiction according to various psychosocial approaches, including the cognitive emotional regulation strategy. The purpose of this study is to classify the potential profiles of smartphone addiction and to verify the trends and differences of the classified groups. A total of 333 college students with an age range of 22–25 were targeted. All subjects were asked to take the Smartphone Addition Scale Based on Behavioral Addiction Criteria (SAS-B), Temperature and Character Inventory (TCI), and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). In order to conduct a person-centered approach, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was used, and it was analyzed using Mplus 7. As a result, there were significant differences in the classification of potential groups for smart addiction. It was found that there is a high correlation between temperament and character in smartphone addiction and cognitive emotional regulation strategies. This study is expected to be useful as basic data for treatment and preventive approaches according to smartphone addiction in the future. Full article

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Measuring College Campus Well-Being with Multidimensional Indices: Sustainability of Higher Education in Taiwan

by Ru-Jer Wang, Shinyi Lin, Min Tseng, Ming-Hseuh Tsai and Te-Hsin Chang

Sustainability 2022, 14(14), 8260; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148260 - 6 Jul 2022

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Understanding students’ subjective perceptions of universities is one of the main issues that needs to be addressed in order to improve aspects such as student retention and achieve sustainable development. Considering subjective well-being as an alternative term for happiness and satisfaction in higher education for sustainability, this study is to develop a measure conceptually and operationally for college campus well-being (CWB) with multiple dimensions, including a psychological, physical, financial, and social dimension of well-being. Subjected to factorial validity and composite reliability, the CWB scale validated by 2793 undergraduate students in central Taiwan was administered. The research demonstrates the appropriate construct validity and suitable-fit indices of the CWB multidimensional scale when used for measuring university-oriented happiness and sustainability in this research context. Differential effects were found among the colleges and between genders. The implications and future research lines are discussed. Full article

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