Calling and Vocation in Career Counseling: Recommendations for Promoting Meaningful Work

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Does the dark side of a calling exist? Examining potential negative effects (2016, background): “For clients with a higher sense of volition, it may be appropriate to facilitate active exploration of values and interests related to working as well as active gathering of career-related information in the pursuit of a career that aligns with their calling (Dik et al., 2009).”
Predicting meaning in work: Theory, data, implications (2013, background): “An organizational orientation toward others integrates a self-transcendent element into the work context, thus manifesting a direction that has been associated with a high potential for meaningfulness (Ashforth & Pratt, 2003; Dik et al., 2009).”
Development and Validation of the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and Brief Calling Scale (BCS) (2012, background): “The transcendent summons, purposeful work, and prosocial orientation domains of calling have served as a means of organizing recommendations for career counseling practice designed to address and integrate clients’ perceptions of calling (Dik et al., 2009).”
Calling and Life Satisfaction Among Undergraduate Students: Investigating Mediators and Moderators (2012, result): “Additionally, we hope that the results of this study may add to the literature on how calling can be incorporated into counseling and intervention (e.g. Dik et al. 2009).”