Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of career goal progress on career and life satisfaction in a dual-earner context. We explore three competing perspectives on the role of partner’s career goal progress: partner coordination, reinforcement and hindrance. Hypotheses were tested using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) on two-wave data of 98 dual-earner couples (i.e., 186 employees). Our results establish a direct effect between individual career goal progress and individual life satisfaction for men, but not for women. We also found a negative covariance between individual and partner career goal progress, which supports the partner coordination perspective. Implications for future research are discussed.
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