Data underlying the research of: SIEs’ identity strain, job embeddedness in the host country and expatriate outcomes: within-domain and spillover buffering effects of off-the-job relationship

We establish a resource-based model to examine the indirect effect of SIEs’ identity strain on expatriate outcomes (performance, work withdrawal, repatriation intention) through on-the-job and off-the-job embeddedness in the host country, with off-the-job relationship building as the boundary condition. We collected two-wave data from Chinese visiting scholars in U.S. with ethics approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB). As a result of these data screening procedures, we had a final usable sample size of 103.