To be yourself or to be your ideal self? Outcomes of potential applicants' actual and ideal self-congruity perceptions
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- Lien Wille (UGent) , Greet Van Hoye (UGent) , Bert Weijters (UGent) , Deva Rangarajan and Marieke Carpentier
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- Abstract
- Recruitment research on person–organization fit has typically focused on organizations’ fit with potential applicants’ actual self, not considering other possible self-images. Based on image congruity theory, we investigate how actual and ideal self-congruity relate to application intentions and intentions to spread word-of-mouth. In a first study, conducted in Belgium, actual and ideal self-congruity related positively to both outcomes. The relation with application intentions was equally positive for actual and ideal self-congruity. Ideal selfcongruity showed a stronger positive relation with word-of-mouth intentions. A second study replicated these findings in the United States and tested for social adjustment concern (need to impress others) as a moderator. As social adjustment concern increased, relations of both outcomes with ideal (actual) self-congruity were stronger (weaker).
- Keywords
- applicant attraction, actual self-congruity, ideal self-congruity, application intentions, word-of-mouth
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8574614
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- Wille, Lien, et al. “To Be Yourself or to Be Your Ideal Self? Outcomes of Potential Applicants’ Actual and Ideal Self-Congruity Perceptions.” JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 17, no. 3, Hogrefe Publishing Group, 2018, pp. 107–19, doi:10.1027/1866-5888/a000213.
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- Wille, L., Van Hoye, G., Weijters, B., Rangarajan, D., & Carpentier, M. (2018). To be yourself or to be your ideal self? Outcomes of potential applicants’ actual and ideal self-congruity perceptions. JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, 17(3), 107–119. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000213
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- Wille, Lien, Greet Van Hoye, Bert Weijters, Deva Rangarajan, and Marieke Carpentier. 2018. “To Be Yourself or to Be Your Ideal Self? Outcomes of Potential Applicants’ Actual and Ideal Self-Congruity Perceptions.” JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 17 (3): 107–19. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000213.
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- Wille, Lien, Greet Van Hoye, Bert Weijters, Deva Rangarajan, and Marieke Carpentier. 2018. “To Be Yourself or to Be Your Ideal Self? Outcomes of Potential Applicants’ Actual and Ideal Self-Congruity Perceptions.” JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 17 (3): 107–119. doi:10.1027/1866-5888/a000213.
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- 1.Wille L, Van Hoye G, Weijters B, Rangarajan D, Carpentier M. To be yourself or to be your ideal self? Outcomes of potential applicants’ actual and ideal self-congruity perceptions. JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY. 2018;17(3):107–19.
- IEEE
- [1]L. Wille, G. Van Hoye, B. Weijters, D. Rangarajan, and M. Carpentier, “To be yourself or to be your ideal self? Outcomes of potential applicants’ actual and ideal self-congruity perceptions,” JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 107–119, 2018.
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author = {{Wille, Lien and Van Hoye, Greet and Weijters, Bert and Rangarajan, Deva and Carpentier, Marieke}},
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journal = {{JOURNAL OF PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY}},
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language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
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publisher = {{Hogrefe Publishing Group}},
title = {{To be yourself or to be your ideal self? Outcomes of potential applicants' actual and ideal self-congruity perceptions}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000213}},
volume = {{17}},
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