讲座内容简介: Employment uncertainty is a major psychological stressor that negatively affects tens of millions worldwide. We propose that mindsets about emotion help to explain coping during this aversive experience. We hypothesized that people who hold a growth emotion mindset (i.e., believe they can change their emotions) cope better than those who hold a fixed emotion mindset (i.e., believe they cannot change their emotions) because a growth (compared to fixed) emotion mindset promotes hope. In Study 1 (N = 261), UK adults facing layoffs who held a more growth (vs. fixed) emotion mindset reported greater hope in their job situation, which predicted better job search attitudes and mental health. Study 2 (N = 487) provides causal evidence that experimentally inducing a growth emotion mindset enhances hope, and thus better job search attitudes and mental health among a field sample of furloughed adults in the UK. Finally, in Study 3 (N = 125), MBA job-seekers’ growth emotion mindset upon entry (time 1) predicted hope for their job search ~5 months later (time 2), which in turn was associated with a real-world marker of job search success: higher achieved salaries (time 3). We discuss the implications of this work for organizational behavior scholarship on mindsets, hope, and employment uncertainty.
主讲人简介: Eva Lin is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at NYU Shanghai. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour and an MSc in Finance from London Business School, and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Lin’s research focuses on mindsets, careers, and social networks. In one research stream, she studies how mindsets shape employees’ ability to cope with employment uncertainty, employee experience, and career transitions. In another research stream, she examines how experiences with different cultures can shape diversity in social networks and how network diversity, together with organizational practices, influences equity and inclusion in the workplace. Her work has received awards at global research competitions and has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
主讲人简介: Eva Lin is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at NYU Shanghai. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour and an MSc in Finance from London Business School, and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Lin’s research focuses on mindsets, careers, and social networks. In one research stream, she studies how mindsets shape employees’ ability to cope with employment uncertainty, employee experience, and career transitions. In another research stream, she examines how experiences with different cultures can shape diversity in social networks and how network diversity, together with organizational practices, influences equity and inclusion in the workplace. Her work has received awards at global research competitions and has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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