The formative role of contextual hardships in women's career calling
Publication date: Available online 28 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Fida Afiouni, Charlotte M. KaramAbstractThe current study explores the relationship between contextual hardships and women's career calling. We examine how the formation of career calling drive is linked to how an individual perceives and affectively reacts to forms of oppression within and across institutional subsystems. In conceptualizing career calling formation, we attempt to broaden our understanding of this concept to include external and negative contextual factors. Our core argument holds that the perception and exp...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Career optimism: A systematic review and agenda for future research
This article systematically reviews empirical work on the antecedents and outcomes of career optimism. Based on a review of the 31 articles on career optimism spanning the last two decades (1998–2017), a framework which integrates findings from empirical work is developed, and a future research agenda presented. We highlight opportunities for empirical and theoretical advancement of the field, calling on researchers to draw on theories such as the conservation of resources, broaden and build and psychology of working theories to understand how career optimism develops and influences individuals' vocational attitudes and ...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Developing, validating, and testing improved measures within the Psychology of Working Theory
Publication date: Available online 28 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Ryan D. Duffy, Nicholas Gensmer, Blake A. Allan, Richard P. Douglass, Jessica W. England, Kelsey L. Autin, David L. BlusteinAbstractSeveral recent studies have examined the predictor portion of the Psychology of Working Theory (PWT; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016), finding support for numerous propositions while also identifying limitations in the assessment of key variables: economic constraints, marginalization, and career adaptability. In the current manuscript we seek to address these limitations. First, in Study...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Calling as a double-edged sword for work-nonwork enrichment and conflict among older workers
Publication date: Available online 23 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Andreas Hirschi, Anita C. Keller, Daniel M. SpurkAbstractHaving a calling has been linked to various positive outcomes, but the potential negative effects of having a calling have not yet received comparable attention. Moreover, research thus far has neglected to examine how callings affect the work–nonwork interface. Based on the work–home resources model, and work–family enrichment theory, we presumed that having a calling can increase as well as deplete personal resources at work, which, in turn, promote work–nonw...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does holding a second job viewed as a calling impact one's work at the primary job?
Publication date: Available online 25 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Brian D. Webster, Bryan D. EdwardsAbstractThe present study extends research related to callings by examining the impact a calling has on other work domains. Specifically, we examine callings in relation to the understudied concept of dual jobholding; an employment arrangement in which an individual holds two jobs. We draw from spillover theory and interrole conflict theory to examine if holding a second job viewed as a calling affects one's work engagement at their primary job. Results suggest holding a second job viewed as...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Longitudinal predictors of the development of a calling: New evidence for the a posteriori hypothesis
Publication date: Available online 25 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Anna Dalla Rosa, Michelangelo Vianello, Pasquale AnselmiAbstractThe literature does not provide a clear answer about the development of callings over time. It has been hypothesized that a calling is a consequence of positive experiences in a domain (a posteriori hypothesis), or that it is the antecedent of career choices and development (a priori hypothesis), or both (reciprocal hypothesis). To investigate which hypothesis better describes the development of a calling, a three-wave longitudinal study was conducted in which w...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Serving followers and family? A trickle-down model of how servant leadership shapes employee work performance
In this study, we integrate prosociality models with role motivation theory to examine how manager servant leadership trickles down to affect employee work performance as well as the role of supervisor family motivation in influencing the trickle-down process. Using a matched sample of employees and their supervisors from three companies in the Dominican Republic, multilevel structural equation modeling results show that manager servant leadership trickles down to inspire supervisor servant leadership, which in turn increases employee prosocial motivation and subsequent work performance. Furthermore, supervisor family moti...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
I know where I'm going: Sensemaking and the emergence of calling
Publication date: Available online 25 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Jane Sturges, Michael Clinton, Neil Conway, Alexandra BudjanovcaninAbstractThis paper draws on the concept of sensemaking to explore the process of the emergence of a calling. Important elements of the calling process are identified: the calling process was initiated when research participants construed unusual events and experiences as cues that made them begin to think that they might have a calling; cues initiated sensemaking, as participants engaged in interpretation and action, to try to clarify what they meant. The soc...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Finding the “I” in “Team”: The role of groups in an individual's pursuit of calling
Publication date: Available online 25 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Brittany C. Buis, Amanda J. Ferguson, Jon P. BriscoeAbstractExtant literature on work as a calling is primarily focused on individual factors. The role of social context, particularly the groups to which individuals belong, is largely unexplored despite the importance of others in the construction of meaning and the central role of groups in the organization of work. We seek to address this conspicuous gap by exploring work groups as a rich and relevant context in which individuals engage in the evaluative experiences inhere...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Serving self or serving others? Close relations' perspectives on ethics and calling
Publication date: Available online 25 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Christopher Michaelson, Jennifer Tosti-KharasAbstractResearch on calling reflects a shared value that works as a calling can be an ethical good, an integral part of a life well-lived. However, scholarship is unsettled on whether calling is primarily for the personal fulfillment of the worker who experiences it, or whether it must be socially valuable, serving the interests of others. This paper explores whether and how primarily self-oriented callings can be seen as having ethical value by studying third-person accounts of c...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Trait expression through perceived job characteristics: A meta-analytic path model linking personality and job attitudes
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Alex L. Rubenstein, Yiwen Zhang, Qing Ma, Hayley Morrison, David F. JorgensenAbstractResearch has provided considerable support for the dispositional basis of job attitudes. However, the theoretical mechanisms that mediate such personality trait-job attitude relationships have been less forthcoming. Drawing from five-factor theory and self-verification theory, in the present study we developed and tested a meta-analytic path model linking the five-factor model (FFM) of personality to overall job attitudes (i.e., job satisfac...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Careers of PhD graduates: The role of chance events and how to manage them
We examined the career pathways of PhDs in Estonia from three different cohorts: 2000, 2005 and 2010. The inductive qualitative longitudinal analysis we applied allowed us to reveal factors influencing the career progress of these cohorts, indicating the major impact of chance events on careers. An inductive data analysis – tracking the individual careers of 389 doctorates and conducting 69 in-depth qualitative interviews – revealed that 1) chance events in academia concerned 30% of the sample, 2) national-, institutional- and individual-level chance events exist, and 3) individuals can benefit from chance events by re...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Fostering sustainable careers across the lifespan: The role of disability, idiosyncratic deals and perceived work ability
Publication date: Available online 6 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Anna Z. Brzykcy, Stephan A. Boehm, David C. BaldridgeAbstractWhile scholars and practitioners are increasingly aware of the positive effect of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) on employee attitudes, little is known about how i-deals might affect work and career outcomes for employees with disabilities, a marginalized and understudied group. The present study builds on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory to explain how i-deals might influence perceived work ability for employees with disabilities, and in turn, their turnover i...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 110, Part BAuthor(s): (Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior)
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Editor’s Introduction: 2017/18 Review Issue
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 110, Part BAuthor(s): Nadya A. Fouad (Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior)
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
