Calling: the development of a scale measure

By Shoshana R. Dobrow, Jennifer Tosti-Kharas. 2011

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When the job is a calling: The role of applying one's signature strengths at work (2012, background): “The engagement in the calling is central to one’s identity when experiencing a calling (Dobrow & Tosti-Kharas, 2011).”
Self-Regulatory Processes Mediating Between Career Calling and Perceived Employability and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adults (2015, unknown): “…research on self-regulation in emerging adults, greater career calling is associated with engaging in more career activities, having more educational information and career insight, and showing more career planning (Dobrow & Tosti-Kharas, 2011; Duffy & Sedlacek, 2007; Hirschi & Hermann, 2013).”
#Trending topics in careers: a review and future research agenda (2017, background): “…Akkermans and Tims, 2017; Forrier et al., 2015; Kuijpers et al., 2006; Van der Heijde and Van Der Heijden, 2006), calling (e.g. Dik and Duffy, 2009; Dobrow and Tosti-Kharas, 2011; Hall and Chandler, 2005), and proactive career behaviors (e.g. De Vos et al., 2009; King, 2004; Strauss et al., 2012).”
Development and Validation of the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and Brief Calling Scale (BCS) (2012, background): “College students endorsing a calling tend to be slightly more satisfied with their lives and report higher levels of life meaning (Duffy & Sedlacek, 2010; Steger & Dik, 2009; Steger et al., 2010); these linkages are somewhat stronger when assessed with employed adults (Bunderson & Thompson, 2009; Pe”
Meaningful work as realization and justification (2017, background): “On the one hand, some view callings as ‘‘a consuming, meaningful passion people experience toward a domain’’ (Dobrow & Tosti-Kharas, 2011, p. 1003), emphasizing the personal engagement and enjoyment that callings bring.”
Work as a Calling in China (2015, background): “…Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, and Tipton (1986) stressed inner interest and fulfillment in defining calling, Hall and Chandler (2005) defined calling as one’s purpose in life, and Dobrow and Tosti-Kharas (2011) defined calling as a consuming, meaningful passion people experience toward a life domain.”
Using goal facilitation theory to explain the relationships between calling and organization-directed citizenship behavior and job satisfaction (2017, unknown): “…Hall, & Seligman, 2009), organizational attachment (Cardador, Dane, & Pratt, 2011; Duffy, Dik, & Steger, 2011; Pei & Zhao, 2015), work engagement (Dobrow & Tosti-Kharas, 2011; Hirschi, 2012; Horvath, 2015; Xie et al., 2016), occupational self-efficacy (Hirschi, 2012; Park, Sohn, & Ha, 2016;…”
Calling and Career Preparation: Investigating Developmental Patterns and Temporal Precedence. (2013, background): “Longitudinal research investigating the relation of calling and career development variables has only begun to emerge (Dobrow, in press; Dobrow & Tosti-Kharas, 2011; Duffy, Manuel, Borges, & Bott, 2011) and generally reported positive relations.”
Testing a Calling Model of Psychological Career Success in Australian Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study (2014, background): “…has been considered as a transcendent summons to a meaningful career used to serve others (Dik & Duffy, 2009), a consuming, meaningful passion (Dobrow & Tosti-Kharas, 2011), work perceived as one’s purpose in life (Hall & Chandler, 2005), and a course of action in pursuit of pro-social…”