Nguyen Anh, Andresen Maike
Department of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 1;14:1125136. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1125136. eCollection 2023.
For dual-earner expatriate couples (DEECs), it is particularly challenging to achieve career satisfaction after relocating to another country and the associated career transitions. While studies have addressed the strenuous career pathways of individuals in DEECs, the identification and empirical analysis of resources that may contribute to the attainment of career satisfaction remains a desideratum. This research investigates the impact of self-enhancing humor and community embeddedness on individual career satisfaction and the crossover effects of humor on that of the partners in DEECs. Using data from 109 DEECs in Europe and Actor-Partner Interdependent Model (APIM), the results show that embeddedness in one's community mediated the relationship between humor and career satisfaction. The study also unfolded the crossover effects of humor within couples: Men's humor promoted their female partner's community embeddedness, which, in turn, promoted women's career satisfaction. This study entails fruitful implications for future research on DEECs and practical recommendations for relevant stakeholders to facilitate the careers of DEECs.
对于双职工外派夫妇而言，在移居到另一个国家以及经历相关职业转变后，要实现职业满意度尤其具有挑战性。虽然已有研究探讨了双职工外派夫妇中个人艰难的职业道路，但对于可能有助于实现职业满意度的资源的识别和实证分析仍然是一项迫切需求。本研究调查了自我提升型幽默和社区融入对个人职业满意度的影响，以及幽默对双职工外派夫妇中伴侣职业满意度的交叉效应。利用来自欧洲109对双职工外派夫妇的数据和actor - partner相互依赖模型（APIM），结果表明，社区融入在幽默与职业满意度之间的关系中起中介作用。该研究还揭示了夫妻间幽默的交叉效应：男性的幽默促进了其女性伴侣的社区融入，进而又促进了女性的职业满意度。本研究对双职工外派夫妇的未来研究具有丰富的启示意义，并为相关利益相关者提供了实用建议，以促进双职工外派夫妇的职业发展。
