Thriving at work: An investigation of the independent and joint effects of vitality and learning on employee health

Thriving at work has been defined as employees’ joint sense of vitality and learning. Based on the socially embedded model of thriving at work, we examine several competing operationalizations of thriving at work. We hypothesize effects of (a) composite thriving, (b) separate vitality and learning scores, and (c) the interaction between vitality and learning, and we explore effects of (d) the congruence between vitality and learning on self-rated physical and mental health.

Career planning and self-efficacy as predictors of students’ career-related worry

We shed light on social-cognitive resources that mitigate master students’ experience of dysfunctional career-related worry before graduation.

Students’ Career exploration: a meta-analysis

On the basis of Lent and Brown’s (2013) model of career self-management (CSM), the meta-analysis examined the antecedents and outcomes of career exploration among college students (K = 109, N = 34,969 students). The findings highlight several implications for the further development of the CSM model, future research on students’ career exploration, and career development practice.

Entrepreneurs may experience errors as simultaneously challenging and threatening

Using a latent profile analysis approach, we examine the emergence of mixed challenge and threat appraisal profiles of entrepreneurial action errors. In addition, we investigate how different profiles are related to entrepreneurs’ ways of dealing with errors.

Thriving at work: a meta-analysis

Thriving at work refers to a positive psychological state characterized by a joint sense of vitality and learning. On the basis of Spreitzer and colleagues’ model, we present a comprehensive meta-analysis of antecedents and outcomes of thriving at work.