PMID- 36733886 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230204 IS - 1664-1078 (Print) IS - 1664-1078 (Electronic) IS - 1664-1078 (Linking) VI - 13 DP - 2022 TI - The influence of employees' perception of over-qualification on career compromise: Mediated by role conflict and sense of relative deprivation. PG - 1039800 LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1039800 [doi] LID - 1039800 AB - In the external environment with the increasing level of education, there is a general phenomenon of excess qualification in the employment market. This research discusses employee career compromise from the perspective of employee over-qualification based on resource conservation theory and self-regulation theory. Combined with the survey data, a structural equation model (SEM) is constructed, and the mediation effect of relative deprivation and role conflict is analyzed according to the causal mediation model. The research find that employees' perception of over-qualification has three ways to affect employees' career compromise. First, employees' perception of over-qualification has a significant positive impact on their career compromise behavior through employees' emotions and self-cognition. Second, role conflict plays a partial intermediary role between the perception of over-qualification and career compromise by positively affecting career compromise behavior. Third, the sense of relative deprivation plays a partial intermediary role between the perception of over-qualification and career compromise by negatively affecting career compromise behavior. According to the research conclusions, the following suggestions are put forward. Enterprises need to establish a scientific employment mechanism to achieve talent-post matching and fundamentally reduce the phenomenon of over-qualifications. The company should pay attention to employee training, actively guide employees' career planning, instruct employees to correctly understand the sense of over-qualification and play a positive role in guiding employees' career planning. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Zhou, Zhang, Lin and Li. FAU - Zhou, Xiaogang AU - Zhou X AD - School of Economics and Management, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. FAU - Zhang, Yunxi AU - Zhang Y AD - School of Economics and Management, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. FAU - Lin, Yanyan AU - Lin Y AD - School of Economics and Management, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. FAU - Li, Liqing AU - Li L AD - School of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230117 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Psychol JT - Frontiers in psychology JID - 101550902 PMC - PMC9887177 OTO - NOTNLM OT - career compromise OT - perception of over-qualification OT - relative deprivation OT - role conflict OT - structural equation model COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2023/02/04 06:00 MHDA- 2023/02/04 06:01 PMCR- 2023/01/17 CRDT- 2023/02/03 02:04 PHST- 2022/09/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/12/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/02/03 02:04 [entrez] PHST- 2023/02/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/02/04 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2023/01/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1039800 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 17;13:1039800. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1039800. eCollection 2022.