Institute for Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
J Couns Psychol. 2012 Jul;59(3):479-85. doi: 10.1037/a0028949.
Scholarly interest in callings is growing, but researchers' understanding of how and when callings relate to career outcomes is incomplete. The present study investigated the possibility that the relationship of calling to work engagement is mediated by work meaningfulness, occupational identity, and occupational self-efficacy--and that this mediation depends on the degree of perceived person-job fit. I examined a highly educated sample of German employees (N = 529) in diverse occupations and found support for 2 of the 3 hypothesized mediators-work meaningfulness and occupational identity--after controlling for the relation of core self-evaluations to work engagement. Contrary to expectations, the mediated relations of callings to work engagement were not conditional upon the degree of person--job fit. The findings are considered in terms of the pathways through which callings may relate to work engagement and other career development outcomes.
学者们对使命感的兴趣日益浓厚，但研究人员对于使命感与职业结果的关联方式和时间了解尚不完整。本研究探讨了使命感与工作投入的关系是否通过工作意义、职业认同和职业自我效能感来中介，以及这种中介是否取决于感知到的人与工作的适配程度。我调查了德国不同职业的受过高教育的员工样本（N=529），在控制了核心自我评价与工作投入的关系后，发现工作意义和职业认同这两个假设中介变量中的 2 个得到了支持。与预期相反，使命感与工作投入的中介关系并不取决于人与工作的适配程度。研究结果从使命感可能与工作投入和其他职业发展结果相关的途径进行了讨论。
