Age and career resilience through the lens of life course theory: Examining individual mechanisms and macro‐level context across 28 countries /

Bernadeta Goštautaitė; Najung Kim; Bryndís D Steindórsdóttir; Emma Parry; Silvia Dello Russo; Maike Andresen; Siriwut Buranapin; Janine Bosak; Jean‐Luc Cerdin; Katharina Chudzikowski; Rick Cotton; Michael Dickmann; Henrique Duarte; Sonia Ferencikova; Robert Kaše; Evgenia I Lysova; Sergio Madero‐Gómez; Sushanta Kumar Mishra; Leda Panayotopoulou; Elo L. K Reiss; Richa Saxena; Mami Taniguchi; Marijke Verbruggen; Jos Akkermans; Eleni Apospori; Silvia Bagdadli; Jon P Briscoe; Övgü Çakmak‐Otluoğlu; Tania Casado; Jong‐Seok Cha; Nicky Dries; Anders Dysvik; Petra Eggenhofer‐Rehart; Leire Gartzia; Martina Gianecchini; Martin Gubler; Douglas Tim Hall; Denise Jepsen; Svetlana Khapova; Daniel Krajcik; Emilie Lapointe; Mila Lazarova; Wolfgang Mayrhofer; Eric J Michel; Biljana Milikic; Astrid Reichel; Florian Schramm; Adam Smale; Ingo Stolz; Pamela Agata Suzanne; Jelena Zikic

doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12596

Title	Age and career resilience through the lens of life course theory: Examining individual mechanisms and macro‐level context across 28 countries /
Authors	Goštautaitė, Bernadeta ; Kim, Najung ; Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís D ; Parry, Emma ; Russo, Silvia Dello ; Andresen, Maike ; Buranapin, Siriwut ; Bosak, Janine ; Cerdin, Jean‐Luc ; Chudzikowski, Katharina ; Cotton, Rick ; Dickmann, Michael ; Duarte, Henrique ; Ferencikova, Sonia ; Kaše, Robert ; Lysova, Evgenia I ; Madero‐Gómez, Sergio ; Mishra, Sushanta Kumar ; Panayotopoulou, Leda ; Reiss, Elo L. K ; Saxena, Richa ; Taniguchi, Mami ; Verbruggen, Marijke ; Akkermans, Jos ; Apospori, Eleni ; Bagdadli, Silvia ; Briscoe, Jon P ; Çakmak‐Otluoğlu, Övgü ; Casado, Tania ; Cha, Jong‐Seok ; Dries, Nicky ; Dysvik, Anders ; Eggenhofer‐Rehart, Petra ; Gartzia, Leire ; Gianecchini, Martina ; Gubler, Martin ; Hall, Douglas Tim ; Jepsen, Denise ; Khapova, Svetlana ; Krajcik, Daniel ; Lapointe, Emilie ; Lazarova, Mila ; Mayrhofer, Wolfgang ; Michel, Eric J ; Milikic, Biljana ; Reichel, Astrid ; Schramm, Florian ; Smale, Adam ; Stolz, Ingo ; Suzanne, Pamela Agata ; Zikic, Jelena
DOI	10.1111/1748-8583.12596
Full Text
Is Part of	Human resource management journal: Special Issue.. Wiley. 2025, ahead-of-print, p. 1-15.. ISSN 0954-5395. eISSN 1748-8583
Keywords [eng]	age ; career optimism ; career resilience ; country‐level context ; life course theory ; positive career meaning
Abstract [eng]	Career resilience is critical to the world's aging workforce, aiding older workers in adapting to the ever‐evolving nature of work. While ageist stereotypes often depict older workers as less resilient when faced with workplace changes, existing research studies offer conflicting evidence on whether older age hinders or improves career resilience. In response to this conflicting evidence, the present study employs multi‐level data from 6772 employees in 28 countries to examine the age‐career resilience relationships and underlying mechanisms, hence advancing our understanding of career resilience across the life course. By integrating macro‐contextual factors such as the unemployment rate and the culture of education with individual‐level mechanisms such as positive career meaning and career optimism, we provide a comprehensive model explaining how career resilience varies across age groups. Grounded in life course theory, our findings resolve prior inconsistencies in resilience research, contribute to bridging the micro‐macro gap in HRM literature, and challenge existing age‐based stereotypes.
Published	Wiley
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2025
CC license

„Age and career resilience through the lens of life course theory: Examining individual mechanisms and macro‐level context across 28 countries /“