The Future Work Self and Calling: The Mediational Role of Life Meaning
The Future Work Self and Calling: The Mediational Role of Life Meaning
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DOI：
10.1007/s10902-016-9760-y
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发表时间：
2016-05
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Chunyu Zhang;A. Hirschi;A. Herrmann;Jia Wei;Jinfu Zhang
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作者：
Chunyu Zhang;A. Hirschi;A. Herrmann;Jia Wei;Jinfu Zhang
关于呼叫的研究普遍关注对福祉和职业发展的积极影响。然而，对预测因素和召唤的出现的探索却很少。我们测试了一个模型，在该模型中，对未来工作自我的清晰认识可以通过增加生活意义来增强一个人的使命感。我们在一年多的时间里对 473 名中国大学生进行了三波面板设计抽样调查。通过时滞分析，我们发现 T1 时的未来工作自我显着预测了 T2 时生活意义的增加，而这反过来又显着预测了 T3 时呼叫的增加。这种间接效应是显着的并且支持了假设的纵向中介模型。一个人的职业作为一个人对未来工作生活或生活意义的自我清晰度的预测因素的反向影响尚未得到证实。我们的研究结果表明，在中国大学生中，自我明确未来的工作生活和理解自己的人生意义是个人职业发展的两个重要步骤。
Research on calling prevailingly focuses on the positive effects on well-being and career development. However, explorations of the predictors and emergence of callings are sparse. We tested a model in which clarity about the future work self promotes one’s sense of calling through increased life meaning. We sampled 473 Chinese college students with a three-wave panel design over 1 year. Using time-lagged analysis, we found that the future work self at T1 significantly predicted increased life meaning at T2, which, in turn, significantly predicted increased calling at T3. This indirect effect was significant and supported the hypothesized longitudinal mediation model. The reverse effects of one’s calling as a predictor of self-clarity about one’s future work life or life meaning were not confirmed. Our findings suggest that among Chinese college students, self-clarity about one’s future work life and understanding one’s life meaning are two important steps in the development of one’s calling.