Prospective relationships between career disruptions and subjective well-being: evidence from a three-wave follow-up study among Finnish managers

摘要

Objectives The objective of this study was to examine the prospective relationships between career disruptions and subjective well-being by using a three-way follow-up data with a 10-year time lag. Specifically, we investigated the causation and selection hypotheses by examining the directions of causal associations between career disruptions and subjective well-being. The causation hypothesis states that negative career changes will result in poorer well-being, whereas the selection hypothesis expects this linkage to be vice versa, that is, employees’ well-being impacts their career line.