“…In PSM literature, there are two research perspectives on whether individual PSM is negatively related to their intentions to stay in the public sector. Some studies have explored the direct effect of PSM on employees' turnover intention (Alonso and Lewis, 2001;Andersen and Søren, 2012;Choi and Chun, 2018), but more recent research has shed light on the link between PSM and turnover intention which was mediated by intermediate variables, including the person-organization fit (Bright, 2008;Kim, 2012;Gould-Williams et al, 2015), organizational commitment (Vandenabeele, 2009;Jin et al, 2018), organizational identification (Miao et al, 2019), social impact potential (van Loon et al, 2018) and meaningfulness of work (Zheng et al, 2020). However, the causality between PSM and turnover intention remains highly disputed.…”