Calling
The Development of a Scale Measure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23316547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shoshana R Dobrow (0000-0002-3068-0129, Fordham University, corresponding author), Jennifer Tosti-Kharas (0000-0001-6140-3047, San Francisco State University), JENNIFER TOSTI‐KHARAS |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1001-1049 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Personnel Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-5826 • E-ISSN: 1744-6570 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01234.x |
| OpenAlex | W2016465515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 64 |
This study clarifies the definition of calling—a consuming, meaningful passion people experience toward a domain—and develops a 12‐item scale measure of calling. Drawing on multiwave longitudinal, 2‐wave longitudinal, and cross‐sectional data from 1,500 participants (2,278 observations) in 4 separate domains, music, art, business, and management, we demonstrate the scale's reliability and unidimensional structure across contexts and over time. We establish the scale's convergent validity and discriminant validity. We determine criterion‐related validity through the scale's relationship to satisfaction with the calling domain, career‐related self‐efficacy, clarity of professional identity, career insight, attending a calling‐oriented college program, professional pursuit of the calling domain, and differences across the 4 domains. We discuss implications of this reliable, valid measure for theory and research on calling, meaning of work, and careers.
Career development · CLARITY · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Discriminant validity · Domain (mathematical analysis) · Meaning (existential) · Measure (data warehouse) · Passion · Predictive validity · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Scale (ratio) · Test validity · Validity · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
Comparando os Impactos da Percepção do Chamado Ocupacional na Vida Pessoal, Profissional e na Saúde dos Funcionários Públicos
Interpretar o Trabalho como um Chamado Contribui para a Empregabilidade ou a Atrapalha
Assessing calling as a predictor of entrepreneurial interest
The Effect of Spiritual Leadership on Primary and Secondary School Teachers’ Professional Well-Being
Emerging Perspectives
Callings and work engagement
Content validation guidelines
Research on calling
Development and Validation of the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and Brief Calling Scale (BCS)
On Corporate Social Responsibility, Sensemaking, and the Search for Meaningfulness Through Work
Fostering meaningful work in organizations
Meaningful work as realization and justification
Negotiating the Challenges of a Calling
Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities
Passion or people? Social capital and career sustainability in arts management
Who am I in retirement? Antecedents and outcomes of retirement self-uncertainty
Exploring the Effects of Empowering Leadership on Teachers’ Career Calling in China
The relationship between a friendly organizational environment and job performance in the post-pandemic era
Protean Careers at Work
Role Stress, Job Burnout, and Job Performance in Construction Project Managers
Authentic Leadership and Taking Charge Behavior
Career Calling and Job Satisfaction in Army Officers
Research on Work as a Calling…and How to Make It Matter
How do career success criteria shape occupational calling
The relationship between kindergarten teachers’ prosocial motivation and emotional support competence
When Bottom-Line Mentality Meets Red Tape
Influencing factors and mediating mechanisms of job crafting in clinical nursing practice
Occupational calling promotes career construction among medical students
The relationship between work–family conflict and occupational burnout among nurses
Professional education toward protean careers in music? Bigenerational Finnish composers’ pathways and livelihoods in changing ecosystems
My called coworkers
Image discrepancy around professional work matters
Development and validation of the Spanish Version of the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire– Short Form (Sp-CVQ-6) and the Spanish Living a Calling Scale (Sp-LCS)
How does Covid-19 pandemic strength influence work fatigue? The mediating role of occupational calling
Calling and employees’ proactive behavior
Double-edged sword effect of informal status on work procrastination
The organizational capital accumulation effect of employee moral capital
Interactive effects of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration on career calling among chinese kindergarten teachers
Can career calling reduce employee silence? The mediating role of thriving and the moderating role of inclusive leadership
The benefits and costs of living out one’s calling
Understanding the relationship between kindergarten teachers’ love for education and emotional support competence
Investigation of cascading effects of perceiving a calling on occupational burnout
Transcendent or Fraudulent
Profiles of Calling and Their Relation to University-to-Work Transition Outcomes
Antecedents and Outcomes of Callings for University Students
Changes in Nurses’ Sense of Calling During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Associations between work overload, prolonging working hours, calling and exhaustion
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students
Sensing callings in crowded contexts
Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers
Moral Identity and the Quaker tradition
Work orientation and flourishing life in twelve Ibero-American countries
Kindergarten Teachers' Work–Family/Family–Work Conflict and Turnover Intention
The role of first-semester career calling and career decidedness in pre-service teachers’ intentions to drop out after the first year of higher education
Emergence of calling in the domain of creative work, and the role of context
Your employees are calling
Do calling-oriented employees take charge in organizations? The role of supervisor close monitoring, intrinsic motivation, and organizational commitment
Perceiving Fixed or Flexible Meaning
Calling and the Good Life
Stories of Calling
The roles of career calling, occupational identity, and capital resources in shaping the creativity of new-generation professional farmers
Young musicians’ career identities
Why are researchers willing to share valuable knowledge resources? The critical role of occupational calling
Impact of inclusive leadership on team innovation performance of new generation employees
Social Work Students’ Perception of Education Quality, Commitment, and Competence
The Relationship between Career Calling and Workaholism
The Career Adaptability and Support Structures of Pilots Losing Medical Certification
Then You Will Know the Truth, and the Truth Will Set You Free’
The moderating role of calling in the work–family interface
Using self-determination theory to understand the relationship between calling enactment and daily well-being
Dynamics of calling
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure
Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students
“There for The Right Reasons”
Correlates of lived career calling
Linking empowering leadership and career calling
Exploring the process of ethical leadership on organisational commitment
Family influence and career calling
Career interest on calling
Newcomer calling shift
Who is more willing to become labor education teachers? A survey of 6756 pre-service teachers in China
Factors influencing innovative work behavior among teachers in the higher education sectors in China
Assessing entrepreneurial calling in Hungary
Fostering newcomers' work well-being through mentoring
The effects of loving-kindness meditation on doctors’ communication anxiety, trust, calling and defensive medicine practice
Spirituality and work engagement among church leaders
Burnout as a Path Between Decent Work and Turnover Intention
Can You Identify Too Much with Your Job? Exploring Spill-Over Effects of Occupational Identity on Different Life Domain Satisfactions and Satisfaction with Life Overall
The meaning of work and cultural psychology
Calling and job involvement
My Family Stands Behind Me
How Does Perceived Calling Influence Sustained Volunteering Intention? The Role of Volunteering Norm and Covid-19 Pandemic Strength
The Mind is not Limited by the Skin’
Walking back to happiness
Living life ‘to the core’
How do callings relate to job performance? The role of organizational commitment and ideological contract fulfillment
It’s not just what you say, it’s how you say it
Development and validation of the workplace hazing scale
Sometimes enough is enough
Handbook of Religion and Health
Careers in and out of Organizations
When Callings Are Calling
The development and validation of the Workplace Ostracism Scale.
Development of a measure of workplace deviance.
Measurement of job and work involvement.
On the meaning of work
Flow
Crafting a Job
In Search of Underlying Dimensions
Exploratory Factor Analysis
Building Theories from Case Study Research
Overall job satisfaction
Common method biases in behavioral research
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
A Brief Tutorial on the Development of Measures for Use in Survey Questionnaires
Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.
Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior
The Measurement of Work Engagement With a Short Questionnaire
Provisional Selves
The Contact Caveat
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Self-efficacy
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect
Structural equation modeling in practice
A meta-analysis and review of organizational research on job involvement
Zest and work
Conceptualizing and evaluating career success
Psychological success
Value Priorities and Religiosity in Four Western Religions
Religiosity, Socioeconomic Status, and the Sense of Mastery
Scale Development
Jobs, Careers, and Callings
Calling and Vocation at Work
Comparative fit indexes in structural models
Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem)
College students' perceptions of calling in work and life
The Work Preference Inventory
Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix
Construct validity in psychological tests
Habits of the Heart
| Unique citing works | 104 |
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| Citations per year | 7,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 100 |