Perceptions of Career Agency and Career Calling in Mid-Career: A Qualitative Investigation

Lemke, Dale L.

doi:10.1177/1069072720956982

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“…Snell et al, 2015;Synard and Gazzola, 2018); career success (e.g. Montanari et al, 2021); career calling (Bott et al, 2017;Hunter et al, 2010;Lemke, 2021); career sustainability (Pak et al, 2020); women's careers (Abalkhail, 2020;Cho et al, 2019;Harman and Sealy, 2017;Osi and Teng-Calleja, 2021); and expatriate careers (Ellis et al, 2020;Shortland, 2020). Despite its contribution to careers scholarship in the last twenty years or so, however, qualitative research was hitherto located at the "margins" of the field (Blustein et al, 2005).…”

Section: Qualitative Studies and Careers Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring careers through a qualitative lens: an investigation and invitation

Richardson

O’Neil

Thorn

2021

CDI

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PurposeIn this paper, the authors investigate and celebrate the contributions that qualitative research has made to Career Development International (CDI) and careers scholarship over the past 25 years. The authors highlight the positive impact of understanding the “lived/emic experiences” of individual career actors using qualitative research designs and identify areas for future research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors employ multiple approaches in their investigation. The authors’ enquiry is part conceptual, part critical analysis and part bibliometric visualisation of qualitative papers published in CDI.FindingsThe authors identify the underlying ontological and epistemological assumptions of qualitative research, and the key tenets and contributions of qualitative research published in CDI. Their bibliometric analysis shows the interrelatedness and frequency of topics addressed by qualitative research and published in CDI, revealing areas for further research. While identifying some of the key criteria for rigor in qualitative research, the authors also engage with emerging calls to avoid rigid templates in how qualitative research is designed and implemented. In this regard, authors echo calls for “methodological bricolage” as an approach to qualitative research in the study of careers.Originality/valueThis is the first bibliographic and visual analysis of qualitative research published in a single journal. The authors offer this investigation as a way of looking back and as an invitation looking forward, encouraging further qualitative research in anticipation of future theoretical developments in career scholarship.

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Section: Qualitative Studies and Careers Scholarshipmentioning

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Exploring careers through a qualitative lens: an investigation and invitation

Richardson

O’Neil

Thorn

2021

CDI

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“…(2017) found that nearly half of physicians were influenced by family members who were employed as health professionals or demonstrated values that informed the physicians’ callings. Results from in‐depth interviews suggest that the contextual factors, including cultural setting, life hardships, personal health and growth, social support, and organizational support, have an important influence on the process of living out one's calling (Lemke, 2020). Albeit limited, these consistent findings across different methods and populations reveal that social support may play an important role in the development of career calling.…”

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Social support on calling: Mediating role of work engagement and professional identity

Zhang

Guo

2023

The Career Development Quart

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Researchers suggest that personal and contextual factors may interact to predict career calling; however, the antecedents of career calling have received less research attention. Consequently, the aim of this research is to develop and test a research model that investigates work engagement and professional identity as mediators of the effect of social support on career calling among 456 Chinese special education teachers. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that perceived social support predicted high levels of work engagement, professional identity, and career calling. Furthermore, work engagement and professional identity simultaneously and sequentially mediated the relationship between perceived social support and career calling. Our findings suggest that supportive social relationships may increase the willingness to dedicate one's time and efforts and enhance the clarity of professional identity, ultimately fostering a sense of career calling. This research would be valuable to both academics and practitioners who are seeking to explore various antecedents of career calling.

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“…One of the foundational elements of this study was the finding that perceiving a calling and living out a calling may be cyclical, as proposed by WCT, meaning that perceiving a calling may motivate individuals to pursue that calling (Vianello et al, 2020). Finally, two studies used WCT as a partial framework examining the influence of career adaptability on career agency (Lemke, 2021;Shava & Chinyamurindi, 2020). In Lemke's (2021) qualitative study, WCT served as a framework to evaluate predictors, moderators, and outcomes of calling.…”

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“…Finally, two studies used WCT as a partial framework examining the influence of career adaptability on career agency (Lemke, 2021;Shava & Chinyamurindi, 2020). In Lemke's (2021) qualitative study, WCT served as a framework to evaluate predictors, moderators, and outcomes of calling. Lemke found evidence supporting WCT, suggesting calling can be a dynamic or cyclical experience, and recommended further exploration of sociocontextual factors based on themes that emerged in the study.…”

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Work as calling theory.

Duffy¹,

Perez²,

Dik³

et al. 2023

Career Psychology: Models, Concepts, and Counseling for Meaningful Employment.

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F or the last 15 years, research on the study of work as a calling has grown exponentially, spanning the fields of counseling, vocational, and industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology as well as management, philosophy, and religion. Although estimates vary on how many publications on calling exist, several of the most influential papers on this topic have each been cited over 1,000 times (Dik & Duffy, 2009;Hall & Chandler, 2005;Wrzesniewski et al., 1997), with those citation counts consistently growing from year to year. However, one important piece missing from this literature has been an overarching theory. Duffy et al. (2018) attempted to address this limitation with the publication of the work as calling theory (WCT). The primary aim of the theory was to explain how perceiving a calling links with living a calling and, in turn, the associated outcomes that occur when one lives out their calling. In the current chapter, we aim to (a) provide an overview of WCT, (b) highlight studies that have used it as a partial or full framework, (c) recommend ideas for future research using the theory, and (d) explore the theory's implications for career counseling practice.

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Perceptions of Career Agency and Career Calling in Mid-Career: A Qualitative Investigation

Cited by 10 publications

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Exploring careers through a qualitative lens: an investigation and invitation

Exploring careers through a qualitative lens: an investigation and invitation

Social support on calling: Mediating role of work engagement and professional identity

Work as calling theory.

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