Calling and Vocation at Work
Definitions and Prospects for Research and Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8913357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan J Dik (Colorado State University, corresponding author), Ryan D Duffy (0000-0001-7418-3274, University of Maryland) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 424-450 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Counseling Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-0000 • E-ISSN: 1552-3861 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0011000008316430 |
| OpenAlex | W2135738394 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 165 |
| References cited | 69 |
The purpose of this article is to initiate an effort to establish the constructs calling and vocation within counseling psychology. First, updated definitions of calling and vocation, developed with an eye toward stimulating research and providing useful practice applications, are proposed. Next, the authors explain how the constructs apply to the domain of human work, review empirical and theoretical work related to calling and vocation and their role in human functioning, and differentiate the terms from each other and related constructs. Finally, directions for basic and applied research on calling and vocation are suggested, and implications for career counseling practice are outlined
Career Counseling · Career development · Counseling psychology · Domain (mathematical analysis · Empirical research · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Industrial and organizational psychology · Work (physics · Applied Psychology · Ego Development and Educational Practices · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
Negotiating an Unretiring Calling
Emerging Perspectives
Callings and work engagement
Research on calling
Development and Validation of the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and Brief Calling Scale (BCS)
Fostering meaningful work in organizations
Meaningful work as realization and justification
Callings and organizational behavior
On the meaning of work
Job crafting and its relationships with person–job fit and meaningfulness
Calling and work-related outcomes
Measuring Meaningful Work
Calling
How Do Religious and Secular Social entrepreneurs’ Identities Trigger Their Prosocial Motivations, Actions, and Processes?
When Bottom-Line Mentality Meets Red Tape
Spiritual Employability
The relationship between socioeconomic status and the career calling of medical students
From ‘meant to be’ to ‘passionate to be’
Xin-Yang and Career-Related Decision-Making Process Among Chinese College Student Population
Examining Search for and Presence of a Calling Among Students and Employed Adults Using Latent Profile Analysis
Career Wisdom in Fostering Job Performance
Teacher purpose in high-performance education
Panggilan (Calling) dan Kesejahteraan di Tempat Kerja pada Karyawan Kehutanan
Influence of family social capital on career calling
The influence of community social capital on pre-service teachers’ career calling
My called coworkers
The influence of religiosity and meaning making on work outcomes
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
The impact of meaning in life on preservice teachers’ innovative behavior
Engaging with life
The effect of informal status on employee creative performance
The occupational meaning in life questionnaire
The benefits and costs of living out one’s calling
An examination of the daily relationship between job boredom and later burnout and turnover intentions along with mitigating strategies
Investigation of cascading effects of perceiving a calling on occupational burnout
Can the interplay of calling diminish the negative effects of the fear of terrorism? Recent evidence from Pakistan
Perceived Organizational Support and Employee Creativity
Nonreligious Employees’ Perceptions of Microaggressions and Their Relationship With Job Satisfaction as Moderated by Calling
Managing One’s Career
Ignatian Spirituality and Career Development
Transcendent or Fraudulent
A Cultural Orientation Approach to Work Orientation
Passion for Work and Well-Being of Working Adults
Profiles of Calling and Their Relation to University-to-Work Transition Outcomes
The Role of Life Planning in Finding Purpose and Living Out One’s Career Calling Among Indonesian Emerging Adults
Antecedents and Outcomes of Callings for University Students
Changes in Nurses’ Sense of Calling During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Career construction counselling intervention to promote the sense of calling of a disadvantaged black woman
A qualitative examination of calling in the context of job mobility among clergy
Metaphor analysis in vocational counselling
Study as calling
Decent work and burnout
Calling’s dimensions and career development among undergraduate students
Career calling, role balance and life satisfaction among female counsellors in Malaysia
In a no‐win situation
Religion and Public Administration
Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages
A Framework for Leader, Spiritual, and Moral Development
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers
Moving the Debate Forward
Teachers' Sense of Calling, Organizational Commitment, and Physical and Mental Health Issues
Kindergarten Teachers' Work–Family/Family–Work Conflict and Turnover Intention
An exploration of psychological contract violation and calling experienced by religious ministers
An exploration of psychological contract violation and calling experienced by religious ministers
Responsible school leadership and teachers' emotional exhaustion
Living a value-based work life
Here, there, & everywhere
Your employees are calling
You stay home, but we can't
Calling and the Good Life
Spirituality and religion in the workplace
Meaningful work and unethical work
‘That's just how medicine is'
Performing the (religious) educator’s vocation. Becoming the ‘good’ early childhood practitioner in Chile
Spirituality, Religion, and Work Values
“There for The Right Reasons”
Spiritual Health in a Secular Age
Profesjon og ledelse i Den norske kirke
Mental health and the pastor’s wife
A qualitative study of mental health help-seeking among Catholic priests
Burnout as a Path Between Decent Work and Turnover Intention
Bringing Together Linked Coding and Realist Thematic Analysis
The Effect of Perceiving a Calling on Pakistani Nurses’ Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Job Stress
Armonías perversas entre precariedad, segregación y discriminación. Trabajadoras técnicas de espectáculos en vivo como estudio de caso
Work–faith integration in the neoliberal age
Meaningful Youth Work Careers
Work orientation
Why are researchers willing to share valuable knowledge resources? The critical role of occupational calling
Research on Work as a Calling…and How to Make It Matter
Identifying motivation profiles among individuals choosing a teaching career
My Family Stands Behind Me
How Does Perceived Calling Influence Sustained Volunteering Intention? The Role of Volunteering Norm and Covid-19 Pandemic Strength
Exploring the Effects of Empowering Leadership on Teachers’ Career Calling in China
Three Types of Preschool Teachers’ Identity and Occupational Well-Being in Mainland China
Newcomer calling shift
Making a Permanent Deacon
Emerging Between Two Worlds
Linking proactive motivation to search for and presence of calling among kindergarten teachers
How do career success criteria shape occupational calling
Careers in and out of Organizations
Toward a Unifying Theoretical and Practical Perspective on Well-Being and Psychosocial Adjustment.
The Contours of Positive Human Health
Relationship of job characteristics to job involvement, satisfaction, and intrinsic motivation.
Measurement of job and work involvement.
A theory of vocational choice.
Flow
Toward a Psychology of Human Agency
On Happiness and Human Potentials
Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.
Habits of the heart
The Pursuit of Meaningfulness in Life
Calling and Conflict
Women Called
A constructive relationship for religion with the science and profession of psychology
Psychology at the Intersection of Work and Family
Women, men, work, and family
The Psychological Aspects of Islam
Psychological success
Jobs, Careers, and Callings
On Deferred Dreams, Callings, and Revolving Doors of Opportunity
Constructing Meaning Despite the Drudgery of Repetitive Work
Transcendent Vocations
Vocational Psychology
Counseling Psychology's Focus on Positive Aspects of Human Functioning
An Emancipatory Communitarian Approach to Vocational Development Theory, Research, and Practice
Leona Tyler Award
The Influences of the Family of Origin on Career Development
Annunciation
On Occupationism
Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency
The Development of Purpose During Adolescence
The Work Preference Inventory
The meaning in life questionnaire
A life-span, life-space approach to career development
Challenges to the Career Development of Urban Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth
Habits of the Heart
Habits of the Heart
Some personality determinants of the effects of participation
Status Inequalities, Perceived Discrimination, and Eudaimonic Well-Being
Religion and the Meaning of Work
Industrial Workers' Worlds
The Relative Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards as Determinants of Work Satisfaction
The interplay of personal and job characteristics in determining work commitment
| Unique citing works | 165 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,71 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 164 |