Many professions experience unique events that highlight their relevance and value. These positive profession-spotlighting events may significantly influence employees’ professional identification, especially for novices in the highlighted professions. In this paper, we aim to gain a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon. Drawing on the identity construction process model, we investigate how and why positive profession-spotlighting events influence novices’ professional identification. In Study 1, using 10-wave longitudinal data (five waves before and five after the outbreak of COVID-19) collected from 322 new graduate nurses, we use discontinuous growth modeling to investigate the impact of the pandemic as a positive profession-spotlighting event on their increase in professional identification. We found that new graduate nurses’ professional identification gradually fell during their initial months in professional practice but rose dramatically after the onset of COVID-19. We also found that sensegiving and moral elevation during the event led to an increase in professional identification. We further theorize an increase in work meaningfulness as the core mechanism for the hypothesized relationships and obtain supporting evidence from one experiment (Study 2) and two quasi-experiments (Studies 3a and 3b). Our research reveals the significant influence of positive profession-spotlighting events on both the identity construction and socialization processes and offers practical implications for how to manage such events.

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新手职业认同觉醒：揭示积极职业聚焦事件的影响

许多职业都会经历独特的事件，突显其相关性和价值。这些积极的职业聚焦事件可能会显着影响员工的职业认同，特别是对于重点职业的新手来说。在本文中，我们旨在全面了解这一现象。利用身份构建过程模型，我们研究了积极的职业聚焦事件如何以及为何影响新手的职业认同。在研究 1 中，我们使用从 322 名新毕业护士收集的 10 波纵向数据（COVID-19 爆发前的 5 波和爆发后的 5 波），使用不连续增长模型来调查大流行作为积极的职业聚焦事件的影响关于他们的职业认同感的提高。我们发现，新毕业护士的职业认同感在专业实践的最初几个月逐渐下降，但在 COVID-19 爆发后急剧上升。我们还发现，活动期间的意义赋予和道德提升导致了职业认同的增加。我们进一步将工作意义的增加理论化为假设关系的核心机制，并从一项实验（研究 2）和两项准实验（研究 3a 和 3b）中获得支持证据。我们的研究揭示了积极的职业聚焦事件对身份构建和社会化过程的重大影响，并为如何管理此类事件提供了实际意义。我们还发现，活动期间的意义赋予和道德提升导致了职业认同的增加。我们进一步将工作意义的增加理论化为假设关系的核心机制，并从一项实验（研究 2）和两项准实验（研究 3a 和 3b）中获得支持证据。我们的研究揭示了积极的职业聚焦事件对身份构建和社会化过程的重大影响，并为如何管理此类事件提供了实际意义。我们还发现，活动期间的意义赋予和道德提升导致了职业认同的增加。我们进一步将工作意义的增加理论化为假设关系的核心机制，并从一项实验（研究 2）和两项准实验（研究 3a 和 3b）中获得支持证据。我们的研究揭示了积极的职业聚焦事件对身份构建和社会化过程的重大影响，并为如何管理此类事件提供了实际意义。