Despite the importance of career goals for career self-management, we know little about the self-regulatory processes underlying career goal attainment. In this study, we draw on transactive goal dynamics theory to investigate whether and how romantic relationships impact career goal attainment. For testing our research model, we focused on the career goal of being successful in a political election, and gathered survey and objective data from politicians at three measurement points (N = 108). As hypothesized, our path analysis showed that relationship closeness facilitated career goal attainment through shared career goals and an increase in the available shared pool of resources. We further explored the moderating role of goal coordination in this process, and found that a high goal conflict undermined the indirect effect of relationship closeness on career goal attainment whereas goal facilitation had no moderating effect. Finally, we found no support for the hypothesized effect of relationship duration on shared career goals and career goal attainment. Our findings indicate that romantic relationships can facilitate career goal attainment and that partners' goal coordination is a relevant boundary condition of this process. Our study thus highlights the value of integrating career research and work-home research. Practically, our results imply that individuals should gain their partner's support for their career goals, and that supervisors can facilitate employees' career development by enabling them to capitalize on home-domain resources such as their romantic relationship. According to our findings, career counselors can assist their clients' career self-management by preventing goal conflicts with their partner.

尽管职业目标对职业自我管理很重要，但我们对实现职业目标的自我调节过程知之甚少。在这项研究中，我们借鉴了主动目标动力理论来研究恋爱关系是否以及如何影响职业目标的实现。为了测试我们的研究模型，我们专注于在政治选举中取得成功的职业目标，并从三个测量点收集了来自政治家的调查和客观数据（N = 108）。如假设的那样，我们的路径分析表明，亲密关系可以通过共享职业目标和增加可用共享资源池来促进职业目标的实现。我们进一步探讨了目标协调在此过程中的调节作用，发现高目标冲突破坏了亲密关系对职业目标达成的间接影响，而目标促进则没有调节作用。最后，我们发现没有证据支持关系持续时间对共同的职业目标和职业目标达成的假设影响。我们的发现表明，恋爱关系可以促进职业目标的实现，而伴侣的目标协调是这一过程的相关边界条件。因此，我们的研究强调了将职业研究与家庭工作研究相结合的价值。实际上，我们的结果表明，个人应该获得其合伙人对他们的职业目标的支持，并且主管可以通过使员工能够利用诸如浪漫关系之类的家庭资源来促进员工的职业发展。根据我们的发现，职业咨询师可以通过防止与伴侣发生目标冲突来帮助客户进行职业自我管理。