A new categorization of career shocks and their effects based on different theoretical explanations

Abstract

: Most previous studies agree that career shocks can be either positively (receiving an unexpected award) or negatively (unexpectedly losing one’s job) valenced. However, due to individual differences in the cognition of events or time factors, this categorization may have some shortcomings. Based on the transactional model of stress and coping, the present study proposes a new classification of career shocks, namely, challenging and hindering career shocks, and further explores the mechanism underlying the impacts of career shocks on individual behaviour based on the transactional model of stress and coping, the job demands-resources model, affective event