* NCA is the main method; ** NCA in combination with a regression-based method; *** NCA in combination with QCA

Publications using NCA:

  • Camitan IV, D. S., & Bajin, L. N. (2021). The Importance of Well-Being on Resiliency of Filipino Adults During the COVID-19 Enhanced Community Quarantine: A Necessary Condition Analysis. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 908. *
  • Costa, S., Daher, P., Neves, P., & Velez, M. J. (2022). The interplay between ethical leadership and supervisor organizational embodiment on organizational identification and extra-role performance. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 31, 214–225. *
  • Dechaume, M., Mercier, M., Feybesse, C., Lubart, T., Chouvelon, G., Kermarrec, S., & Tordjman, S. (2024). Is intelligence necessary and sufficient for creativity? An analysis of convergent and divergent thinking. Learning and Individual Differences, 116, 102575. **
  • Dong, M. (2021). What Is It to Be Wise? The Nomological Network and Necessary Conditions of Wisdom. (PhD dissertation, University of Toronto). **
  • Dul, J., Karwowski, M., Kaufman, J.C. (2020). Necessary Condition Analysis in Creativity Research. In: Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity (V. Dörfler and M. Stierand, eds.). Edward Elgar publishers. ISBN: 978 1 78643 964 2. *
  • Dul, J. (2019). The Physical Environment and Creativity. In J. C. Kaufman & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (pp. 481–509). Cambridge University Press. *
  • Edelmann, C. M., Boen, F., Stouten, J., Vande Broek, G., & Fransen, K. (2023). The Power of Peer Leaders: Exploring the Link between Peer Leadership Behaviors and Sustainable Work Outcomes. Behavioral Sciences, 14(1), 2. *
  • Escadas, M., Jalali, M. S., Septianto, F., & Farhangmehr, M. (2024). Are emotions essential for consumer ethical decision‐making: A Necessary Condition Analysis. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 33(3), 468–485. **
  • Gavín-Chocano, Ó., García-Martínez, I., & De La Rosa, A. L. (2024). Self-regulated learning as an inherent factor of academic self-concept in university students. Current Psychology, 43(34), 27469–27480. **
  • Glück, J., & Scherpf, A. (2022). Intelligence and wisdom: Age-related differences and nonlinear relationships. Psychology and Aging, 37(5), 649–666. 
  • Glück, J., Weststrate, N. M., & Scherpf, A. (2022). Looking beyond linear: A closer examination of the relationship between wisdom and wellbeing. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23, 285–3313.*
  • Hernaus, T., Dragičević, N., & Hauff, S. (2024). The necessity of job design for employee creativity and innovation: Nothing happens without supervisor support. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 33(5), 583–598.**
  • Ibrahimi, Q., Berisha, G., Krasniqi, B., & Ramosaj, B. (in press). Behaving with style: investigating the influence of decision-making styles on the innovative work behavior of managers. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance. (published online in 2024). **
  • Jada, U. R., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2019) Understanding the effects of empowering, transformational and ethical leadership on promotive and prohibitive voice: A moderated mediated examination, Personnel Review, 48(3), 707-730 **
  • Jain, N. K., Kaushik, K., & Sharma, A. (2023). What drives customers toward proximity payment services? An integrated theory of planned behavior perspective. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 47(3), 1095–1111. ***
  • Jankowska, D. M., & Karwowski, M. (2023). How Vivid Is Your Mental Imagery?: Validation of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire in Five Polish Samples. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 39(6), 437–448.
  • Karwowski, M., Dul, J., Gralewski, J., Jauk, E., Jankowska, D.M., Gajda, A., Chruszczewski, M.H., Benedek, M. (2016). Is creativity without intelligence possible? A Necessary Condition Analysis, Intelligence, 57, 105-117. **
  • Karwowski, M., Jankowska, D. M., Brzeski, A., Czerwonka, M., Gajda, A., Lebuda, I., & Beghetto, R. A. (2020). Delving into Creativity and Learning. Creativity Research Journal, 32(1), 4–16. **
  • Karwowski, M., Kaufman, J. C., Lebuda, I., Szumski, G., & Firkowska-Mankiewicz, A. (2017). Intelligence in childhood and creative achievements in middle-age: The necessary condition approach. Intelligence, 64, 36-44. *
  • Korman, J. V., Van Quaquebeke, N., & Tröster, C. (2022). Managers are Less Burned-Out at the Top: the Roles of Sense of Power and Self-Efficacy at Different Hierarchy Levels. Journal of Business and Psychology, 7, 151–171. **
  • Liehr, J., & Hauff, S. (2023). Must have or nice to have? Necessary leadership competencies to enable employees' innovative behavior. International Journal of Innovation Management, 26(10), 2250070. 
  • Mercier, M., & Lubart, T. (working paper). Are individual-level factors necessary for creativity? A necessary condition analysis (Published online in 2020). *
  • Pangarso, A., Winarno, A., Aulia, P., & Ritonga, D. A. (2022). Exploring the predictor and the consequence of digital organisational culture: A quantitative investigation using sufficient and necessity approach. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 43(3), 370–385. **
  • P., I., & Mekonnen, N. (in press). Moral intensity and ethical decision-making: A combined importance-performance map analysis for professional accountants. International Journal of Ethics and Systems. (published online in 2024). **
  • Rafi, A., Roy, S. K., Rehman, M. A., & Hasni, M. J. S. (2025). Impact of multidimensional presence on user well-being in metaverse communities. Decision Support Systems, 189, 114382. **
  • Roemer, L. (2021). Interesting Variations—An Exploration of the Nature and Correlates of Vocational Interest States in Daily Life. (PhD dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin). **
  • Servajean-Hilst, R., & Suurmond, R. (2024). Purchasing team innovation climates as antecedents of purchasing involvement in open innovation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 27(09n10), 2350048. **
  • Shi, B., Wang, L., Yang, J., Zhang, M., & Xu, L. (2017). Relationship between Divergent Thinking and Intelligence: An Empirical Study of the Threshold Hypothesis with Chinese Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 25 **
  • Tuuli, M. M., & Rhee, H. van. (2021). How ability, motivation, and opportunity drive individual performance behaviors in projects: Tests of competing theories. Journal of Management in Engineering, 37(6), 04021070.
  • Ullibarriarana-Garate, A., Agirre-Aramburu, I., Miguel, M. M.-D. M., & Sánchez-Urien, N. (2024). Higher education apprenticeship. Analyzing the impact and essential conditions of workplace resources on apprentices’ career satisfaction. Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development, 8(13), 9040. **
  • Wang, L., Jiang, M., Zhu, F., & Song, P. (2022). Untangling Employee Well-Being in Projects: A Configural Analysis of Job Stressors and Psychological Needs. Journal of Management in Engineering, 38(4), 04022026. ***
  • Zahrai, K., Veer, E., Ballantine, P. W., de Vries, H. P., & Prayag, G. (2022). Either you control social media or social media controls you: understanding the impact of self‐control on excessive social media use from the dual‐system perspective. Journal of Consumer Affairs. 56(2), 806-848. **
  • Zang, X., & Guo, S. (2024). Influencing factors of spatial conflicts in the Chinese urban environment from the perspective of spatial politics: Empirical study based on NCA and fsQCA. Journal of Chinese Governance, 9(1), 49–77. ***
  • Zhang, H., Li, H., Li, C., & Lu, X. (2024). Disentangling user fatigue in WeChat use: The configurational interplay of fear of missing out and overload. Internet Research, 34(7), 160–186. ***
  • Zhou, S., & Wang, Y. (2022). How negative anthropomorphic message framing and nostalgia enhance pro-environmental behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: An SEM-NCA approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 977381. **
  • Zhou, S. (2022). The Effect of COVID-19 Risk Perception on Pro-Environmental Behaviour of Chinese consumers: Perspectives from Affective Event Theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 8177. *
  • Zhu, P., Miao, C., Wang, Z., & Li, X. (2023). Informational cascade, regulatory focus and purchase intention in online flash shopping. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 62, 101343. **
  • Zielińska, A., Lebuda, I., Gop, A., & Karwowski, M. (2024). Teachers as creative agents: How self-beliefs and self-regulation drive teachers’ creative activity. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 77, 102267. **
  • Zielińska, A., Lebuda, I., & Karwowski, M. (2023). Dispositional self-regulation strengthens the links between creative activity and creative achievement. Personality and Individual Differences, 200, 111894. **

Publications suggesting NCA for future research: 

  • Benedek, M., Kenett, Y. N., Umdasch, K., Anaki, D., Faust, M., & Neubauer, A. C. (2017). How semantic memory structure and intelligence contribute to creative thought: A network science approach. Thinking & Reasoning, 23(2), 158–183.
  • Brady, L. L., Credé, M., Sotola, L., & Tynan, M. (2019). A Meta-Analysis on Positive Psychology Correlates of Sales Performance. In P. L. Perrewé & P. D. Harms (Eds.), Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being (pp. 91–115). Emerald Publishing Limited.
  • Bücker, J., & Korzilius, H. (2024). Developing and validating a team cultural intelligence scale. Applied Psychology, 73(3), 1386–1415.
  • Chang, R. X., Carvalho, M. M., & Sbragia, R. (2023). Towards a comprehensive conceptual framework for multicultural virtual teams: A multilevel perspective exploring the relationship between multiculturalism and performance. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 16(2), 325–354.
  • Cortina, J. M., Köhler, T., Keeler, K. R., & Pugh, S. D. (2022). Situation strength as a basis for interactions in psychological models. Psychological Methods, 27(2), 212–233.
  • Dello Russo, S., Antino, M., Zaniboni, S., Caetano, A., & Truxillo, D. (2021). The Effect of Age on Daily Positive Emotions and Work Behaviors. Work, Aging and Retirement, 7(1), 9–19.
  • Frazier, M. L., Fainshmidt, S., Klinger, R. L., Pezeshkan, A., & Vracheva, V. (2017). Psychological safety: A meta‐analytic review and extension. Personnel Psychology, 70(1), 113-165.
  • Gajda, A., Karwowski, M., & Beghetto, R. A. (2017). Creativity and academic achievement: A meta-analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology, 109(2), 269.
  • McKay, A. S., Karwowski, M., & Kaufman, J. C. (2017). Measuring the muses: Validating the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(2), 216–230.
  • Tynan, M. C. (2021). Deconstructing Grit’s Validity: The Case for Revising Grit Measures and Theory. In L. E. Van Zyl, C. Olckers, & L. Van Der Vaart (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Grit (pp. 137–155). Springer International Publishing.