Research on calling: What have we learned and where are we going?

By Ryan D. Duffy, Bryan J. Dik. 2013

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Subfields: Demography, Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Linking dimensions of career adaptability to adaptation results: A meta-analysis (2017, background): “Calling is conceptualized as “the belief that one’s career is a central part of a broader sense of purpose and meaning in life and is used to help others or advance the greater good in some fashion” (Duffy & Dik, 2013, p. 429).”
Testing a Calling Model of Psychological Career Success in Australian Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study (2014, methodology): “This limits our knowledge of how career calling might relate to individual behaviour more generally, and how it might affect people over time (Duffy & Dik, 2013).”
Does the dark side of a calling exist? Examining potential negative effects (2016, background): “The dark side of living a calling To date, the bulk of research focused specifically on living a calling has demonstrated that those who have the opportunity to do so at work tend to be extremely happy, committed, and engaged employees (Duffy, Allan, et al., 2014; Duffy & Dik, 2013).”
Using goal facilitation theory to explain the relationships between calling and organization-directed citizenship behavior and job satisfaction (2017, background): “…interventions designed to enhance individuals' openness to new directions, to encourage individuals to explore their interests, values, and skills and match them with potential jobs or to encourage individuals to connect their work with a tangible, prosocially-oriented purpose (Duffy & Dik, 2013).”
#Trending topics in careers: a review and future research agenda (2017, background): “Closely related to this suggestion is the need for intervention studies that can provide a better understanding of whether meaningfulness can be directly enhanced, and if yes, how this can be achieved (Duffy and Dik, 2013).”
South Korean Salespersons’ Calling, Job Performance, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (2016, background): “…extensive research has demonstrated the positive functioning of a sense of calling in diverse working adults in Western cultures, such as North America and Germany (for a review, see Duffy & Dik, 2013), a few studies have been based on samples from Eastern cultures (Guo et al., 2014; Park, 2010).”
Work as a Calling in China (2015, background): “The topic has become a focus of scholarly interest in the social sciences in recent years, especially within counseling psychology and management, with the number of studies published on the topic since 2007 more than quintupling the number published in all of prior history (Duffy & Dik, 2013).”
Competitive climate and workaholism: Negative sides of future orientation and calling (2016, background): “Research has shown that having a calling is commonly associated with positivework andwell-being outcomes such as increasedwork engagement, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction (Duffy & Dik, 2013).”
The Development and Initial Validation of a Career Calling Scale for Emerging Adults (2015, unknown): “This definition is consistent with other conceptualizations that view calling as a context-specific goal (Duffy & Dik, 2013) and promote personal agency as the means for successfully pursuing it (Dobrow, 2004; Elangovan et al., 2010; Hall & Chandler, 2005).”