The idea of the psychological contract, as a tacit mental representation of an employee’s expectations of the work exchange with the employer, is congruent with the concept of a construction, as recognized by constructivism and personal construct psychology (PCP) in particular. This relationship was addressed by examining how a group of employees construe their psychological contracts. The empirical findings challenge the received wisdom that the psychological contract emerges during work socialization in response to environmental cues and signals, positing instead that antecedent individual and social experiences contribute to work predispositions that independently shape and influence psychological contract construal. Specifically, the findings point to the role of sociality in sharing cultural values that materially define the construction.

心理契约的概念，是员工对与雇主进行工作交换的期望的默示心理表示，它与建构的概念一致，尤其是建构主义和个人建构心理学（PCP）所认可。通过研究一组员工如何构造他们的心理契约来解决这种关系。这些经验发现挑战了人们所接受的智慧，即心理契约是在工作社会化过程中响应环境线索和信号而出现的，相反，它假定先前的个人和社会经验有助于独立塑造和影响心理契约建构的工作倾向。具体而言，研究结果指出了社会性在分享文化价值上的作用，这些文化价值实质地定义了建筑。