The research has long assumed that the perception of career plateauing triggers negative affective and behavioral reactions (i.e., normal effect perspective), and that the models hold at the between-person and within-person levels. However, some scholars suggest that the affective and behavioral engagement of employees may also affect their career experiences (i.e., reverse relationship perspective), and caution us not to infer homology across levels. To test these competing perspectives, we analyzed 1227 observations from three longitudinal survey waves conducted over 42 months with 409 employees of a Canadian financial/insurance company. The results indicate that higher than usual occasion reports of content plateauing were related to decreased affective commitment and OCB, while hierarchical plateauing perceptions were only negatively related at the between-level to affective commitment. This study found support for an inverse association between OCB and content plateauing, such that lower than usual reports of OCB were related to increased perceptions of content plateauing (reverse relationship perspective). Across times, OCB was found to be a more proximal predictor of content plateauing than affective commitment. This study contributes to the literature on career plateauing by demonstrating the dynamic nature of content plateauing perceptions and the limited role of hierarchical plateauing when the role of content plateau and time is considered.

长期以来，该研究一直假设对职业停滞的感知会引发负面的情感和行为反应（即正常效应观点），并且该模型适用于人与人之间的水平。然而，一些学者认为，员工的情感和行为投入也可能影响他们的职业经历（即逆向关系视角），并告诫我们不要推断出跨层次的同源性。为了测试这些相互竞争的观点，我们分析了 42 个月内对加拿大金融/保险公司的 409 名员工进行的三个纵向调查波的 1227 次观察。结果表明，内容平台期高于平常的场合报告与情感承诺和 OCB 降低有关，而等级高原知觉仅在层间与情感承诺呈负相关。这项研究发现支持 OCB 与内容平稳之间的反向关联，因此低于通常的 OCB 报告与增加对内容平稳的看法有关（反向关系视角）。随着时间的推移，发现 OCB 是比情感承诺更接近的内容稳定预测指标。本研究通过展示内容平稳感知的动态性质以及在考虑内容平稳和时间的作用时分层平稳的有限作用，为职业平稳的文献做出了贡献。因此，OCB 的报告低于通常的报告与对内容停滞的看法增加有关（反向关系观点）。随着时间的推移，发现 OCB 是比情感承诺更接近的内容稳定预测指标。本研究通过展示内容平稳感知的动态性质以及在考虑内容平稳和时间的作用时分层平稳的有限作用，为职业平稳的文献做出了贡献。因此，OCB 的报告低于通常的报告与对内容停滞的看法增加有关（反向关系观点）。随着时间的推移，发现 OCB 是比情感承诺更接近的内容稳定预测指标。本研究通过展示内容平稳感知的动态性质以及在考虑内容平稳和时间的作用时分层平稳的有限作用，为职业平稳的文献做出了贡献。