Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2014, 2, 217-225
Published Online September 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jss
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2014.29037
How to cite this paper: Zhou, J.W., Plaisent, M., Zheng, L.L. and Bernard, P. (2014) Psychological Contract, Organizational
Commitment and Work Satisfaction: Survey of Researchers in Chinese State-Owned Engineering Research Institutions.
Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2, 217-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2014.29037
Psychological Contract, Organizational
Commitment and Work Satisfaction: Survey
of Researchers in Chinese State-Owned
Engineering Research Institutions
Jianwu Zhou, Michel Plaisent, Lili Zheng, Prosper Bernard
La Rochelle Business School, Finland
Email: zhengl@esc-laroch elle.fr
Received July 2014
Abstract
This research analyzed the effect of knowledge workers’ psychological contract on organizational
commitment and work satisfaction. Data was collected thru a questionnaire survey given to 517
randomly selected Chinese knowledge workers in two state-owned engineering research institu-
tions. The questionnaire contained items about the demographic profile of the respondents, psy-
chological contract, organizational commitment and work satisfaction. The last three items were
answered using a Likert rating scale ranging from 1 to 5 (strongly disagree to strongly agree). De-
scriptive statistics of the information on demographics was done together with reliability analysis,
Pearson correlation and multiple regression of the data on the last three items on the question-
naire. The two dimensions of psychological contract were found to have a significant positive cor-
relation with organizational commitment and work satisfaction. The three dimensions of organi-
zational commitment were found to have a significant positive correlation with work satisfaction.
From the regression model it was found that the fulfillment of knowledge workers’ psychological
contract contributed to the development of increased organizational commitment which in turn
contributed to increased knowledge workers’ job satisfaction level. This research investigated
further the application of psychological contract in Chinese context and bridges the literature gap
on analyzing the effects of Chinese psychological contract on work satisfaction through organiza-
tional commitment.
Keywords
Psychological Contract, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Chinese Knowledge Workers
1. Introduction
Knowledge workers are employees who generate information and apply this information to produce original and
creative works. Usually, the position of knowledge workers requires a high level of education, training and pro-
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fessional experience as Research and Development (R & D) staffs and technical design staffs in research and
designing institutes [1]. The knowledge worker is the primary component of the firm’s human resources. Know-
ledge has become one of the most vital resources of companies. The generation of knowledge, its application
and value-adding ultimately depends on knowledge workers. However, as the job market for knowledge workers
becomes competitive, loyalty to the company is reduced since the major concern of knowledge workers be-
comes personal without due consideration to organizational stability [2]. Hence, how to increase the researchers’
work satisfaction has become the key point of strengthening human resource management in companies.
With the fast changes in market demands, organizations have to adjust to meet and adapt to these changes,
which increases employees’ work-related stress. On the other hand, the present rapidly-changing life styles have
consequently changed individual values. More and more individuals prefer the transition contractual relationship
and freedom to several other options. This has triggered the decrease of employee commitment to organizations
and job satisfaction which disturbs leaders and managers of organizations [3]. Thus, it becomes necessary to
build the appropriate organization-member relationship. Consequently, the psychological contract has become a
major concern for scholars. Integrating psychological contract and knowledge worker management is a new di-
rection in knowledge worker management. Presently, the Chinese society is in a transition period. The social
economic change and the consequent organizational change have deeply changed the employment relationship
between organizations and employees. This largely affects the psychological contract between organizations and
employees. The decreasing trust and commitment between organizations and employees, the reduction of job sa-
tisfaction level and high turnover rate of core knowledge workers have seriously affected the performance of
Chinese companies. Due to the significant cultural and organizational differences between China and the devel-
oped countries in the West, the psychological contract theory proposed in the western world may be not suitable
in China.
Many current studies of psychological contract in China have considered research employees in their entirety,
but lack concrete discussions of employees with different characteristics. A few empirical studies have been
concerned with the relationship between psychological contract, organizational commitment and job satisfaction
of Chinese knowledge workers. By taking Chinese knowledge workers as samples, this study intends to analyze
the relationship among psychological contract, organizational commitment and work satisfaction.
2. Theoretical Framework and Research Hypothesis
2.1. Psychological Contract
The generalized meaning of psychological contract emphasizes the organization and the individual worker’s
cognition of their mutually fulfilling responsibilities and obligations. This cognition may come from the formal
employment contract or hide in multiple expectations. But in a narrow perspective, psychological contract re-
flects the collection of employee beliefs about the responsibilities and obligations of both sides based on percep-
tion, commitment and trust in the employment relationship [4]. The study of Cassar and Briner [5] discussed that
this belief is employees’ understanding and perception of the exchange relationship between what employee
gives to the organization (competence, effort and loyalty) and what the organization gives in return (reward,
promotion and satisfactory work environment). This perception is built based on the subjective understanding of
organizational commitment, but the organization may not fulfill its part.
Rousseau [4] classifies psychological contract into two aspects: transactional contract and relational contract.
The former is based on the material benefits’ satisfaction for both sides. Employees do not become the organiza-
tional members really but they are only concerned about the short term material reward and personal benefits. In
contrast, relational contract is based on the satisfaction of social affection of both sides, such as organizational
support and organizational loyalty. Relational contract reflects employees’ affective involvement and belief in
organizations because organizations not only provide necessary material reward in return to employees, but also
provide guarantees for employees’ work safety, skill training and career development. Many empirical studies
have supported these two dimensions of psychological contract.
2.2. Organizational Commitment
Most scholars support the view of Meyer and Allen [6] who emphasized that organizational commitment reflects
the psychological status between employees and organizations. Organizational commitment implies employee
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determination of whether to stay or not stay in the organization and it contains three dimensions: affective com-
mitment (reflecting employees’ affective dependence, identification and involvement in organizations and re-
flecting employeeswillingness to stay in organization as their affection to organization), normative commit-
ment (reflecting employee commitment to stay in organizations as their sense of social responsibility and obli-
gation) and continuance commitment (reflecting employee commitment to stay in organization based on utilita-
rian consideration). The definition of Meyer and Allen [6] clearly emphasizes that organizational commitment is
the employee’s psychological perception of the relationship between individuals and organizations and it reflects
employee psychological status of being loyal to the organization. Hence, organizational commitment is em-
ployees’ sense of identification, loyalty, involvement and willingness in organizations based on their affection to
organizations, individual benefits and sense of responsibility [7]. In this research, knowledge workers’ organiza-
tional commitment has three dimensions: affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative com-
mitment.
2.3. Work Satisfaction
Usually scholars classify work satisfaction into two aspects: overall satisfaction and specific satisfaction. Over-
all satisfaction reflects employees’ overall love for work or overall attitude towards work, while specific satis-
faction reflects employee’s feelings in concrete aspects of work [7]. This study defines work satisfaction from an
overall perspective as the major goal of this research is to check the effects of psychological contract and orga-
nizational commitment on overall work satisfaction of knowledge workers. Hence, work satisfaction is know-
ledge workers’ emotional response and attitude towards the work. This definition is advanced to understand
knowledge workers’ affective response and attitude from an overall perspective.
2.4. Effects of Psychological Contract on Organizational Commitment and Work
Satisfaction of Knowledge Workers
Organizational commitment reflects the employee’s emotion of voluntary participation in organizational activi-
ties with the increasing unilateral investment in organizations. Psychological contract reflects the belief system
of employees to mutual responsibility and obligation between individuals and organizations. But the difference
between them is that: the content of organizational commitment is unidirectional which only reflects employee
emotion to organization, but psychological contract involves the bidirectional relationship which reflects em-
ployees’ belief to taking responsibilities and the organization taking responsibilities also. In this process, em-
ployees will compare and modify the extent of both sides fulfilling the contract, in order to reach the balanced
state ultimately [5].
Rousseau [4] has emphasized that organizational commitment is actually the result of psychological contract.
Individual cognition, comparison and belief of responsibilities of both sides then make individuals have different
commitment ways and levels in organizations. Psychological contract reflects employee’s subjective belief of
the responsibility and obligation between individuals and organizations. Whether the right expectation in psy-
chological contract is realized or not, has an important effect on knowledge workers. With the right expectation,
the material guarantee is to provide high level of reward, pay for performance, promotion and development.
These material guarantees have a large effect on knowledge workers’ decision about whether they will stay in
the organization and affect their emotional dependence and involvement in organizations. The interpersonal
support and internal development expectation has correlation with long term work guarantee, career develop-
ment, good interpersonal environment and social emotional exchanges. These aspects will affect knowledge
workers’ love for the organization, which then affects whether they stay or not in the organization. The study of
Luo and Yu [8] analyzed the effect of psychological contract on organizational commitment of knowledge
workers. They found that transactional contract has a significant negative effect on organizational commitment
but relational contract has a positive influence.
In aspect of the link between organizational commitment and work satisfaction, scholars do not have a con-
sistent view. Some scholars [9] viewed work satisfaction as the antecedent of organizational commitment and
argued that there is a positive correlation between them. These scholars argued that knowledge workers who
have a higher level of work satisfaction will transfer the active work attitude into increased organizational com-
mitment. Compared with organizational commitment, work satisfaction changes more readily and is largely un-
stable. Hence, work satisfaction can be viewed as the antecedent of organizational commitment. The study of
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Yamaguchi [7] also argued that knowledge workers’ high level of organizational commitment is mainly contri-
buted by a high level of work satisfaction. However, some scholars have the opposite view that organizational
commitment is the antecedent of work satisfaction. This view supposes that individuals actively adjust their
work satisfaction level in order to adapt to the current situation of organizational commitment. This research
supports the latter view by discussing the effect of psychological contract and organizational commitment on
work satisfaction of knowledge workers.
Research hypothesis:
H1: Chinese knowledge workers’ psychological contract has a significant positive effect on organizational
commitme n t .
H2: Chinese knowledge workers’ organizational commitment has a significant positive effect on work satis-
faction.
H3: Organizational commitment has a mediating effect on the relationship between Chinese knowledge
workers’ psychological contract and work satisfaction.
3. Methodology
3.1. Questionnaire Design and Data Process Methods
This research employed a questionnaire survey to gather primary data to test the research hypotheses, in order to
seek the effects of knowledge worker psychological contract on organizational commitment and job satisfaction
(Figure 1). The questionnaire had four parts. The first part referred to the samples’ background information. The
second to fourth part pertained to the scale of psychological contract, scale of organizational commitment and
scale of work satisfaction respectively. The instrument used a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5,
representing the respondents’ level of agreement with each of the items, 1 represents strongly disagree and 5
represents strongly agree. This research used SPSS 15.0 software for descriptive statistical analysis, reliability
analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis.
3.2. Samples and questionnaire distribution
This research selected randomly knowledge workers in two Chinese state-owned engineering research institu-
tions in the same industry. In this study, the knowledge workers consisted not only of professional staff that
perform R&D tasks, but also included staff who support and assist the R&D tasks such as lab administrators.
The respondents of the questionnaire survey in this research were 517 knowledge workers in different depart-
ments and positions in the two Chinese engineering research institutions.
4. Results, Analysis and Discussions
4.1. Demographic Profile of the Samples
The descriptive analysis of samples is given in Table 1.
4.2. Data Reliability Test
In a rating scale, reliability reflects the consistency or stability of the resulting measurements. This research ap-
plied Cronbach Alpha coefficient as an indicator of reliability. The data can be seen in Table 2.
Figure 1. Effect of knowledge worker’s psychological contract on organiza-
tional commitment and work satisfaction
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Table 1. Descriptive statistical analysis.
Characteristic Frequency
% of frequency in
valid samples
% of frequency in
total samples
% of valid samples
Gender Male 248 48 51.1 93.8
Female 235 45.5 48.5
Age
<25 years 12 2.3 2.5
94.2
26 - 30 52 10.1 10.7
31 - 35 63 12.2 12.9
36 - 40 122 23.6 25.1
41 - 45 118 22.8 24.2
46 - 50 83 16.1 17
51 - 55 26 5 5.3
56 - 60 11 2.1 2.3
Civil status Married 434 83.9 90.6 92.6
Unmarried 44 8.5 9.2
Education level
Postgraduate or higher 93 18 19.1
94.2
University 200 38.7 41.1
Junior college 121 23.4 24.8
Polytechnic school 47 9.1 9.7
High school or less 26 5 5.3
Number of years
of work in the
company
< 5 years 65 12.6 13.7
91.9
6 - 10 54 10.4 11.4
11 - 15 91 17.6 19.2
16 - 20 104 20.1 21.9
21 - 30 123 23.8 25.9
31 - 40 34 6.6 7.2
>41 years 4 0.8 0.8
Classification
of Job title
Senior 93 18 19.3
93
Medium-grade 224 43.3 46.6
Junior 101 19.5 21
Others 28 5.4 5.8
According to Table 2, the Cronbach Alpha coefficients of the three scales are 0.863, 0.911and 0.805, which
are all higher than 0.8. Hence, the items in the three scales have a high level of reliability, and they can be used
for the subsequent statistical processing.
4.3. Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis
Table 3 presents the Pearson correlation analysis of psychological contract, organizational commitment and
work satisfaction. Based on this table, it can be seen that two dimensions of psychological contract have a very
significant positive correlation with the three dimensions of organizational commitment; two dimensions of
psychological contract have a very significant positive correlation with work satisfaction; three dimensions of
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Table 2. Results of the reliability test.
Scale Number of items Cronbach’s alpha coefficient
Scale of psychological contract 10 0.863
Scale of organizational commitment 15 0.911
Scale of work satisfaction 4 0.805
Table 3. Pearson correlation analysis of psychological contract, organizational commitment and work satisfaction
Transactional
contract
Relational
contract
Normative
commitment
Continuance
commitment
Work
satisfaction
1.Transactional contract 1
2.Relational contract 00.251** 1
3.Affective commitment 0.324** 0.333** 1
4.Normative commitment 0.301** 0.226** 0.124** 1
5.Continuance commitment 0.281** 0.294** 0.167** 0.125** 1
6.Work satisfaction 0.415** 0.226** 0.615** 0.295** 0.328** 1
Note: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01(two - tailed)
organizational commitment have a very significant positive correlation with work satisfaction.
4.3.1. Dependent Variable: Organizational Commitment
In Table 4 the two dimensions of psychological contract are considered as independent variables and organiza-
tional commitment as dependent variable for regression analysis. The result shows that both transactional con-
tract and relational contract have a significant positive effect on organizational commitment. The regression
coefficients are 0.267 and 0.229, which are significant at 0.01 level. Hence, the satisfaction of knowledge work-
ers’ psychological contract will significantly increase their commitment to the organization. Hypothesis H1 is
supported.
4.3.2. Dependent Variable: Work S atisfaction
In Table 5 the three dimensions of organizational commitment are the independent variables and work satisfac-
tion is the dependent variable in regression. The result shows that affective commitment, normative commitment
and continuance commitment all have a significant positive effect on work satisfaction. Regression coefficients
are 0.406, 0.103 and 0.249, which are significant at 0.01 level. Hence, the increasing of knowledge workers’ or-
ganizational commitment will significantly increase their work satisfaction. Thus, H2 hypothesis is supported.
4.3.3. Dependent Variable: Work S atisfaction
In order to test the H3 hypothesis, the regression model considered psychological contract as independent varia-
ble, organizational commitment as mediating variable and work satisfaction as dependent variable. The result is
presented in Table 6. According to Table 6, after adding the mediating variable of organizational commitment
(model 3), the regression coefficient of organizational commitment for work satisfaction is still significant at
level of 0.001, and the regression coefficient of psychological contract for work satisfaction is also significant at
level of 0.001 and this regression coefficient reduces from 0.455 (model 2) to 0.335 (model 3). This implies that
organizational commitment has partial mediating effect on the link between psychological contract and work sa-
tisfaction. The satisfaction of knowledge workers’ psychological contract will cause the increased organizational
commitment, which eventually contributes to increase in work satisfaction. Hence, the third hypothesis of H3 is
supported.
4.4. Empirical Results and Discussions
First of all, the hypothesis of H1 is supported. Two dimensions of psychological contract (including both trans-
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Table 4. Regression analysis of psychological contract and organizational commitment
Independent variables Standardized Regression Coefficients t Sig.
Beta
1
(Constant) 8.126 0.000
Transactional contract 0.267** 2.991 0.005
Relational contract 0.229** 2.628 0.004
Note: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01(two - tailed)
Table 5. Regression analysis of organizational commitment and work satisfaction
Independent variable Standardized Regression Coefficients t Sig.
Beta
1
(Constant) 9.880 0.000
Affective commitment 0.406** 4.925 0.005
Normative commitment 0.103** 1.854 0.004
Continuance commitment 0.249** 2.871 0.001
Note: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01(two - tailed)
Table 6. Mediating effect of organizational commitment.
Regression model
Dependent variable Independent variables
Standardized Regression Coefficients
Beta
Sig.
1 Work satisfaction Psychological contract 0.455*** 0.000
2
Organizational commitment
Psychological contract 0.598*** 0.000
3 Work satisfaction Psychological contract 0.335*** 0.000
Organizational commitment 0.253*** 0.000
Note: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 (two - tailed).
actional contract and relational contract) all play a significant role on the knowledge workers’ commitment to
organization. Through regression analysis of the relationship between knowledge workers’ psychological con-
tract and organizational commitment, this study finds that psychological contract has a significant positive im-
pact on organizational commitment. In other words, the improvement in the fulfillment of the psychological
contract will contribute to a higher level of knowledge workers’ organizational commitment [8]. On one hand,
the better fulfillment of psychological contract will make knowledge workers form a more intense affective
identification with the organization. Then they will feel more proud of being organizational members. When
knowledge workers perceive that the firm has fulfilled the psychological contract better, respondents will have a
large positive effect on their commitment to the organization, which is felt when the organization provides for a
more harmonious interpersonal atmosphere and shows a more intense care about its employees. On the other
hand, according to Cassar and Briner [5], a psychological contract breach will weaken knowledge workers’
identification with the organization. When knowledge workers think the psychological contract is not fulfilled,
they will lose their trust on the organization and they will no longer identify with the firm. How Chinese
state-owned engineering research institutions fulfill their commitments and obligations to knowledge workers
largely determine their perceived satisfaction with the psychological contract. Consequently, this affects know-
ledge workers’ commitment to the organization. The satisfaction of transactional contract involves providing
sufficient material incentive and added stock option incentive to knowledge workers. This is done to reduce the
fast turnover rate of knowledge workers, which then plays a significant effect on continuance and normative di-
mensions of organizational commitment. The satisfaction of relational contract involves providing long term
favorable work guarantee and advanced career development to knowledge workers, in order to cultivate their
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positive feelings towards the organization. Consequently this plays a significant effect on continuance commit-
ment and affective commitment of knowledge workers.
Secondly, H2 hypothesis is also supported. The three dimensions of organizational commitment namely af-
fective commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment all have a significant positive effect
on work satisfaction of knowledge workers. Based on statistical analysis, this study finds a significant positive
impact of organizational commitment on work satisfaction. In other words, knowledge workers with higher level
of organizational commitment then have higher level of satisfaction with the working operational procedures
This result is consistent with studies of Eslami and Gharakhani [3] and Zopiatis et al. [10]. Knowledge workers
will be more proud of being organizational members if they have higher level of affective identification and in-
volvement with the organization. This positive emotion then will be brought to work, which is advantageous in
increasing work satisfaction. Affective commitment reflects employee’s affective dependence, involvement and
identification with the organization [6]. Knowledge workers with a higher level of affective commitment show
more intense identification with the firm’s idea, concept and value. Also, the individual value becomes more
consistent with the organizational value, which then causes a higher loyalty of knowledge workers to companies
[11]. Knowledge workers with a high level of organizational commitment show a higher trend to accept the
firm’s actual work condition and environment. They try to integrate into the firm environment actively; as a re-
sult they show high level of satisfaction in the work. Normative commitment reflects the employee’s sense of
obligation and responsibility to stay in the organization [6]. Knowledge workers with high level of normative
commitment have strong self-control and they view the work in the organization as their responsibility and ob-
ligation. Also they view themselves are members of the organization. Even in the presence of competitive a en-
vironment with external incentives (such as higher level of compensations in other companies), knowledge
workers with high level of normative commitment keep being loyal to their current organizations and will not
leave the company. These employees definitely show a high level of work satisfaction.
Thirdly, H3 hypothesis is supported by the empirical analysis. Knowledge workers with different satisfaction
levels of psychological contract will perceive different levels of work satisfaction. But simultaneously, organi-
zational commitment influences the effect of knowledge workers’ psychological contract on work satisfaction.
The statistical analysis of this research shows that organizational commitment plays partially a mediating effect
on the link between psychological contract and work satisfaction. According to social exchange theory and eq-
uity theory, it is the mutually beneficial relationship between organizations and employees, which requires both
sides to have pay out and return in exchange. This mutually beneficial relationship is not only clearly shown in
the formal employment contract, but also exists in employee psychology with the potentially mutual expectation
and understanding (which refers to the psychological contract of employee). For instance, employees expect or-
ganizations can provide learning and training opportunities, can give the good humane care and social support
and can provide promotion development based on employee’s work performance. On the other side, organiza-
tions expect employees to be loyal to the organization, work actively and make contributions consistently for the
firm’s development. When knowledge workers think the psychological contract is satisfied, they will form a
strong sense of identification and loyalty to the organization and they feel proud of being organizations members.
As such, they feel they have obligations and responsibilities to work in the organization. This then brings a high
level of organizational commitment, which finally causes a high level of work satisfaction of employees. The
finding of this research provides exploratory evidence for analyzing the mediating variable between psycholog-
ical contract satisfaction and work output. For instance, the study of Alniacik et al. [12 ] has found that organiza-
tional commitment has a mediating role on the effect of expectation satisfaction and work satisfaction. Also, this
finding shows the mechanism of psychological contract satisfaction affecting organizational commitment and
work satisfaction. When knowledge workers’ psychological contract is satisfied (the required obligation of or-
ganizations is effectively fulfilled), they will perceive the physical and psychological incentives. Based on the
principle of mutual benefit, knowledge workers will increase their commitment to organizations, which then in-
creases their work satisfaction. This finding also implies that companies should be concerned with the psycho-
logical contract of knowledge works in human resource management.
5. Conclusions and Recommendations
This research reviewed literatures about psychological contract, organizational commitment and work satisfac-
tion initially. Then it proposed hypotheses showing the relationship among psychological contract, organiza-
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tional commitment and work satisfaction. This study employed a survey questionnaire to Chinese knowledge
workers. Data was processed by SPSS software. It finds that: firstly, the satisfaction of knowledge workers’
psychological contract will increase the organizational commitment; secondly, the increased knowledge workers’
commitment to organizations will cause the increased work satisfaction; lastly, the satisfaction of knowledge
workers’ psychological contract will increase their work satisfaction through increased organizational commit-
ment.
Hence, Chinese companies should be concerned about effective communication with knowledge workers
concerning psychological contract. Especially, firm’s HR departments and direct supervisors of knowledge
workers should provide support to enhance the satisfactory implementation of the psychological contract and
communicate the firm’s expectations to knowledge workers. They should understand the real expectation of
knowledge workers in order to reduce the non-compliance of the psychological contract, which is then advanta-
geous towards increasing the organizational commitment of knowledge workers.
Due to the limitations of research time and funding, the sample size of this research may not be large enough.
This study collected 517 copies of questionnaires from Chinese knowledge workers. However, the representa-
tiveness of the sample may not be adequate, which will limit the generalization of the research conclusions.
Hence, the future researches may consider collecting samples covering a wider range of Chinese knowledge
workers in different types of companies, in order to increase the sample representativeness and generalization of
conclusion.
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