Presence Of Calling Research Articles

The Association Between Work as a Calling and Turnover Among Early Childhood Education Professionals.

Turnover of early childhood education (ECE) professionals negatively impacts program costs, staff morale, and relationships with children. We determined whether the presence of work as a calling was associated with less intention to leave the ECE field. From an online survey administered to 265 ECE professionals in Pennsylvania, a calling score based on the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire was used to create sample-defined tertiles of low (< 38), medium (38-44), and high (> 44) presence of calling. Those intending to leave the ECE field reported that, given the option, they would most likely "find a position or get training in a completely different field," or "stop work, stay home, or retire." Analysis was restricted to 194 respondents currently employed in ECE and under age 60, of whom 94.8% were female and 53.9% were non-Hispanic White. After adjusting for race/ethnicity and workplace stress, the prevalence (95% CI) of intention to leave decreased as calling increased, from low (28.6% [17.8%, 38.4%]) to medium (12.2% [4.3%, 20.1%]) to high (9.1% [1.5%, 16.6%]). The presence of call was associated with less intention to leave the ECE field. Identifying, building, and sustaining call among ECE professionals may decrease turnover.

Evaluation of Sense of Calling and Creative Personality Traits of Pediatric Nurses

Background: Pediatric nurses must have a sense of calling as they provide services to pediatric patients, a very sensitive population. Pediatric nurses are often required to use their creative personality traits when giving care and treatment to children, explaining any procedure, trying to divert attention, etc. The research was conducted between January and May 2021 in order to evaluate the sense of calling and creative personality traits of pediatric nurses. Methods: The research was conducted based on descriptive and cross-sectional type. The sample of the study consisted of 96 pediatric nurses working in two separate training and research hospitals and a state hospital. "Information Form", "Calling and Vocation Questionnaire" and "Creative Personality Trait Scale" were used to collect data. Results: A statistically significant, positive and strong relationship was determined between the presence of calling and the total creative personality trait, task orientedness, internal motivation and self-confidence sub-dimensions. The presence of calling and the search for calling of nurses explain 47% of their creative personality traits. Conclusion: It was determined that the presence of calling is an important predictor of creative personality traits. The model we established in our study was found to be significant.

Speaking Up &amp; Speaking Out: How Presence of Calling Can Impact Women Academic’s Voice Behavior

Voice behavior has the capacity to generate a host of benefits including role modeling of change-oriented behaviors, creative problem-solving, and overall organizational effectiveness. Despite its powerful implications, exercising voice within organizational settings can present significant challenges. Within academic settings, open dialogue and freedom of speech is strongly encouraged. However, utilizing voice can result in less than favorable outcomes—particularly for women academics. Perceived lack of status and power derived from socialized gender roles have led women academics to exhibit reduced voice behavior. Drawing on social role theory and social cognitive theory, this paper proposes that women academics can develop greater voice self-efficacy when they identify their work as a calling, leading to their enhanced voice behavior. This relationship is examined given the meaningfulness prescribed to academic work. Hence, this paper presents the first investigation of presence of calling as a buffering component between women academic’s voice self-efficacy and voice behavior. Furthermore, improved voice self-efficacy is examined in relation to the individual-level traits strongly associated with presence of calling: prosocial motivation and greater self-efficacy. This exploration will have important implications both for theory and practice as it pertains to issues of leadership, gender, calling, academia and voice behavior in the workplace.

Panggilan (Calling) dan Kesejahteraan di Tempat Kerja pada Karyawan Kehutanan

Working conditions with a high risk of safety and health can reduce employees’ well- being in the workplace. Well-being in the workplace is essential in supporting employee performance that prevents employees from error and negligent behavior. Therefore, this study aims to determine the relationship between calling and well-being for forestry employees. Our hypothesis is search for calling dimension has a negative correlation with employees’ well-being at work, and the presence of calling has a positive correlation with employees’ well-being at work. Through the purposive sampling technique, 130 employees are willing to participate in this study. Data collection uses the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and the Eudaimonic Well-being at Work Scale (EWWS), with high-reliability scores. The results of data analysis showed that both the dimensions of calling–search and the presence–had a significant positive relationship with well-being at work. Employees who seek a calling, and those who perceive a calling, feel a sense of well-being at work.

The Search for and Presence of Calling: Latent Profiles and Relationships With Work Meaning and Job Satisfaction.

Previous studies showed inconsistent results on the association between searching for calling and its psychosocial functioning outcomes (i.e., work meaning and job satisfaction). The link of searching for calling to its psychosocial functioning outcomes may be influenced by the presence of calling because the search for and presence of calling can co-exist within individuals. Thus, the present study employed a person-centered method (latent profile analysis) to identify subgroups combining the search for and presence of a calling and then explore the identified profiles' differences in work meaning and job satisfaction. Study participants were Chinese kindergarten teachers (n = 726). Latent profile analysis revealed four different groups: (1) actively maintaining calling (24.93%), (2) unsustainable calling (11.43%), (3) moderately increasing calling (23.14%), and (4) actively increasing calling (40.50%). Subsequent analyses showed notable differences across the four groups on work meaning and job satisfaction. Participants in profile 1 with both the highest searching for and presence of calling would experience more work meaning and job satisfaction than those in the other profiles whose strengths of searching for and presence of calling were relatively low. Participants in profile 4 had higher searching for and presence of calling than those in profile 3, and they experienced more meaningfulness at work and were more satisfied with their job. These findings indicate that actively searching for calling is closely associated with more work meaning and job satisfaction among people who already perceive intensive calling. Implications, limitations, and future directions of the results are discussed.

Career Mentoring in Higher Education: Students’ Perceptions and Experiences

Nowadays, the process of building the career of emerging adults is embedded in the need for meaningful paths, connection, creativity and autonomy. Thus, the support services universities offer for students should incorporate subjective aspects of individual experiences such as targeting relevant goals, building meaningful learning experiences, promoting personal resources of adaptability. One of the most effective mechanism for positively influencing students’ career paths is mentoring, by helping them to successfully face the academic and life challenges and to build meaningful careers. The current study aims to investigate perceptions and experiences of seven undergraduate students, in order to understand the mentoring role in the development of a calling orientation in their career trajectory. Data was collected through one-to-one semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis was conducted. The findings revealed a mentoring approach that includes a career construction theory and calling-infused elements has positive effects on self-reflection, self-knowledge, proactive experiences and behaviours that maintain and strengthens the perception of the presence of calling. In other words, the support of a mentor facilitates the activation of personal resources and values the self-directed career oriented towards individualized results in the context of an uncertain and dynamic work environment.

Calling as a double-edged sword for work-nonwork enrichment and conflict among older workers

Having a calling has been linked to various positive outcomes, but the potential negative effects of having a calling have not yet received comparable attention. Moreover, research thus far has neglected to examine how callings affect the work–nonwork interface. Based on the work–home resources model, and work–family enrichment theory, we presumed that having a calling can increase as well as deplete personal resources at work, which, in turn, promote work–nonwork enrichment and conflict among older workers. We investigated these assumptions among 599 employees, aged between 50 and 60 years, by examining within-individual changes in presence of calling, positive affect at work, workaholism, work–nonwork enrichment, and work–nonwork conflict over a period of one year, with two measurement points. Results indicated that an increase in the presence of a calling was positively related to increased levels of positive affect at work, which, in turn, was positively related to increased work–nonwork enrichment. However, an increase in the presence of a calling was also positively related to increased workaholism, which was positively related to increased work–nonwork conflict. The findings suggest that having a calling is meaningfully related to the work–nonwork interface among older workers in both positive and negative ways.

Living one's calling: Job resources as a link between having and living a calling

Recent research on calling has pointed to the important distinction between having and living a calling in order to explain the positive effects of callings on well-being. However, how the link between having a calling and living a calling might be explained has only been partially addressed. In the present study, we focused on the neglected role of workplace characteristics as key factors in this regard. In a sample of 232 working adults in Germany, we established that presence of calling and living a calling were significantly related to job resources in terms of decision-making autonomy, task significance, and social support at work. Moreover, presence of calling and living a calling positively related to level of education, leadership position, and salary. Testing indirect effects with bootstrapping analyses, we found that job resources, specifically decision-making autonomy and task significance, partially mediated the relation of presence of calling with living a calling, while controlling for educational level and leadership position. The results support the idea that living a calling is not just about finding work that fits one's calling. People who have a calling are also more likely to live their calling by working in jobs with more job resources.

Career Decision Ambiguity Tolerance and Its Relations With Adherence to the RIASEC Structure and Calling

While career decision ambiguity tolerance (CDAT) has been repeatedly shown to play a salient role in career decision-making, a potential revision of its measurement model has been indicated in past research. More importantly, it remains less clear as to what individual characteristics are associated with high CDAT. We examined a four-factor model of CDAT (i.e., preference, tolerance, confidence, and aversion) and its associations with adherence to the realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprise, and conventional (RIASEC) structure and career calling in a sample of college students ( N = 248). The results of the current study supported the four-factor model being superior to the original three-factor model in representing the structure of CDAT. It was also found that adherence to the RIASEC structure was positively associated with preference, presence of calling was positively associated with confidence, and search for calling was positively associated with aversion. The implications of the results were discussed with respect to the theory and research of CDAT. Limitations and suggestions for future research were also provided.

Examining Moderators of Signature Strengths Use and Well-being: Calling and Signature Strengths Level

This study examined the relation between signature strengths use and satisfaction with a sample of diverse undergraduate students. We measured strengths use and satisfaction in both the life and academic domains and identified two possible moderators of this relation: the level of one’s signature strengths and the presence of calling. Results revealed a three way interaction between signature strengths use, signature strengths level, and calling in the prediction of life satisfaction and a two way interaction between signature strengths use and calling in the prediction of academic satisfaction. Contrary to our hypotheses, people low in calling and high in signature strengths level showed the strongest relation between signature strengths use and life satisfaction. For the academic domain, participants low in calling showed the strongest relation between strengths use and academic satisfaction but those high in calling still benefited from using their strengths. Implications for future research and limitations of the study are discussed.

Vocational Identity Achievement as a Mediator of Presence of Calling and Life Satisfaction

The present study explores what mechanism might be responsible for the reported link between presence of a calling in one’s career and life satisfaction. It is proposed that vocational identity achievement acts as one important mediator of this relation and that the effects can be observed even when controlling for core self-evaluations (CSEs). The study used a short-term longitudinal design based on a sample of 269 German college students from different majors. The results confirmed the mediation model, with calling predicting vocational identity achievement 6 months later and identity serving as a stronger predictor of life satisfaction, all controlling for CSEs. However, contrary to previous research, presence of calling was not directly related to life satisfaction and even showed a negative relation when vocational identity achievement was controlled. The results are interpreted to suggest a multifaceted relation between calling and life satisfaction.