“…Finally, the study's findings provide further empirical support for PMT ( Floyd et al, 2000 ) by lending credence to the role of cognitive processes, comprising perceptions towards the pandemic and perceived efficacy, in facilitating protective behavior (i.e., health risk preventative behavior) and in turn career resilience. PMT has been applied predominantly to common health risk behaviors such as disease prevention ( Anderson et al, 2020 ) or vaccination uptake ( Ling, Kothe, & Mullan, 2019 ) and rarely to protective behaviors in a pandemic setting ( Nguyen-Phuoc, Oviedo-Trespalacios, Nguyen, Dinh, & Su, 2022 ; Tang, Chen, Lin, & Feng, 2021 ; Zheng et al, 2021 ). Our study applies this theory not only to a pandemic context but also to the tourism sector.…”