A study of new labor market entrants’ job satisfaction trajectories during a series of consecutive job changes.
利用英国和澳大利亚的长期面板数据，研究发现新进入劳动力市场的个体在连续换工作时，每次换工作后的蜜月效应会更强，之后逐渐回归基线满意度。
Previous research on the psychological effect of job change has revealed a honeymoon-hangover pattern during the turnover process. However, there is a dearth of evidence on how individuals react and adapt to multiple job changes over their working lives. This study distinguishes adaptation to a single job change in the short term from adaptation to the process of job change in the long term. Drawing on two large-scale, long-running panel data sets from Britain and Australia, it examined how job satisfaction trajectory evolved as individuals made a series of consecutive job changes since they first entered the labor market. Our fixed effect analyses show that in both countries, individuals experienced a stronger honeymoon effect with each successive job change, before gradually reverting to their baseline job satisfaction. In short, the amplitude of the honeymoon-hangover effect increased across multiple job changes. By distinguishing "adaptation to change" from "change in adaptation," this study generates original insights into the role of job mobility in facilitating career development and extends set point theory from understanding the impact of single life events to recurring life events. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).