Abstract This paper studies the influence of organizational justice on revenge motivation and the mediating role of psychological contract breach. Questionnaires are adopted in this paper and the research data are gathered through a longitudinal survey of 349 employees in 22 companies from 12 cities at two times. Hierarchical multiple-regression analyses are adopted to test the hypothesis. The results show the following: (1) procedural justice, distributive justice and information justice have significantly negative correlation with revenge motive toward the organization; distributive justice and interpersonal justice have significantly negative correlation with revenge motive toward coworkers. (2) psychological contract breach plays a complete mediating role between information justice and revenge motive toward the organization, distributive justice and revenge motive toward the organization, interpersonal revenge and revenge motive toward coworkers; psychological contract breach plays a partial mediating role between procedural justice and revenge motive toward the organization, distributive justice and revenge motive toward coworkers.
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