Zhang, Chunyu; Herrmann, Anne; Hirschi, Andreas; Wei, Jia; Zhang, Jinfu (2015). Assessing Calling in Chinese College Students: Development of a Measure and Its Relation to Hope. Journal of Career Assessment, 23(4), pp. 582-596. Sage 10.1177/1069072715595804
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Research suggests that perceiving a calling towards a particular career is relatively frequent among college students in Western cultures. However, little is known about how this applies to other cultural contexts. This study assessed the perception of career as a calling in the Chinese culture. Study 1 reports the development of the Chinese Calling Scale (CCS), based on a sample of 788 Chinese college students, and identifies three dimensions of a calling: Altruism, Guiding Force, and Meaning and Purpose. Measurement invariance across gender is supported by the CCS. In Study 2, the convergent and criterion validity of the CSS is examined based on a sample of 387 college students. The CCS is strongly related to an existing calling measure and moderately related to life meaning and life satisfaction. Study 3 examines the relation between calling, hope, life meaning, life satisfaction, and career decidedness among 518 college students. The findings reveal that hope significantly mediated the relation of calling with career decidedness, life meaning, and life satisfaction. In summary, this study provides a new scale to assess calling in Chinese culture and is the first to explore how calling relates to dispositional hope.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zhang, Chunyu, Hirschi, Andreas |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
1069-0727 |
Publisher: |
Sage |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Christine Soltermann |
Date Deposited: |
20 Jan 2015 13:45 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:39 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1177/1069072715595804 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.61799 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/61799 |
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