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Relationships Among Career Thoughts, Vocational Identity, and Calling: Implications for Practice
Author(s) -
Galles Jacob A.,
Lenz Janet G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2013.00052.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , identity (music) , psychology , relation (database) , career development , sample (material) , power (physics) , social psychology , sociology , pedagogy , physics , acoustics , chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics , database , computer science
The concept of a calling in relation to career choice is a topic of interest in current literature. Exploring variables that may contribute to the presence of a calling is an important gap in the literature. This study examined career thoughts and vocational identity in relation to the presence of calling in a sample of 329 undergraduate university students enrolled in a career development course. The findings revealed significant relationships among all the variables of interest, as well as moderate predictive power, indicating that vocational identity and career thoughts may contribute to the formation of a calling to pursue a particular career. Limitations, implications for practice, and future research are discussed.