This study extends prior research on the relationships between personality constructs and types of psychological contracts by exploring how the Big Five traits predict balanced psychological contracts. Further, we determine whether epistemic curiosity and rule‐following behavior are key mediators of the proposed relationships. We tested our proposed hypotheses using three‐wave time‐lagged data from 469 respondents. The results indicated that openness to experience was positively associated and both conscientiousness and neuroticism were negatively associated with balanced contracts. Extraversion and agreeableness were not associated with balanced contracts. We also established the mediating role of epistemic curiosity in the relationships between personality traits and balanced contracts, but there was no support for the mediating role of rule‐following behavior in the present study. These findings have important implications for managers and organizations in terms of selecting the right person for a job (person‐job fit) and ensuring employee retention (person‐organization fit), hence having a bottom‐line effect on firm performance. Future research directions are also discussed.

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人格与均衡的心理契约：认知好奇心与规则遵循行为的中介作用

这项研究通过探索“五大”特质如何预测平衡的心理契约，扩展了关于人格建构与心理契约类型之间关系的先前研究。此外，我们确定认知的好奇心和遵循规则的行为是否是所提议关系的关键中介者。我们使用来自469位受访者的三波时滞数据检验了我们提出的假设。结果表明，开放的经验与均衡的合同成正相关，而尽职和神经质则与负相关。外向性和宜人性与均衡合同无关。我们还建立了认知好奇心在人格特质与均衡契约之间的关系中的中介作用，但是在本研究中，没有支持规则遵循行为的中介作用。这些发现对于管理人员和组织而言，对于选择合适的人选（人与工作相适应）并确保员工留任率（人与组织相适应）具有重要意义，因此对公司绩效产生了底线影响。还讨论了未来的研究方向。