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Approach or avoidance? A dual-pathway model of job crafting in response to generative AI and its impact on career sustainability
Originally published 2026-03-24 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1779227 ↗
AI / system type
Generative-AI-related job crafting and work autonomy
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Generative-AI-related job crafting and work autonomy. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings approach and avoidance job crafting and career sustainability into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers multi-source multi-wave employee–leader survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is approach and avoidance job crafting and career sustainability. Source setting or population: 287 employee–leader dyads in China. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Does changing my work with AI also improve life outside work?
This multi-source multi-wave employee–leader survey examines approach and avoidance job crafting and career sustainability. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
287 employee–leader dyads in China
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Does changing my work with AI also improve life outside work?
- What do this study’s design and population — 287 employee–leader dyads in China — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering approach and avoidance job crafting and career sustainability, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
The reported work-related pathways did not significantly predict life satisfaction; career findings should not be presented as overall life benefits.
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Yuanzhe Liu; Hongzhen Lei; Xiaoqian Qu (2026). Approach or avoidance? A dual-pathway model of job crafting in response to generative AI and its impact on career sustainability Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1779227
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