ABSTRACT
Psychological climate refers to individuals’ cognitive representations of proximal environments, expressed in terms that represent the personal or acquired meaning of environments to individuals. Psychological-climate theory was developed primarily to study individuals’ perceptions of work environments (James & Jones, 1974, 1976), although as discussed throughout this report, the assumptions underlying psychological-climate theory were derived from many areas of psychology and the assumptions themselves are not limited to work environments. Nevertheless, to maintain consistency between assumptions and empirical research, the discussions and illustrations presented focus on work environments, although, the implications drawn from these discussions and illustrations are extended easily to environmental perception in general.
