Living to work: The role of occupational calling in response to challenge and hindrance stressors

IF 5.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Work and Stress Pub Date : 2020-03-20 DOI:10.1080/02678373.2020.1743791

Chloe A Wilson, T. Britt

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The present study examined how occupational calling affects the relationships between challenge and hindrance stressors, work motivation, and mental health symptoms. Individuals experience the presence of calling as a result of a transcendent summons (i.e. feeling called to a particular line of work), being engaged in purposeful work, or having a prosocial orientation to work as giving back to others. Employees with a higher calling orientation were expected to experience enhanced reactions to both challenge and hindrance stressors. A prospective design was utilised, as the three subscales of calling and challenge and hindrance stressors were assessed at Time 1 and engagement and mental health symptoms were assessed three months later at Time 2. Results indicated that the relationships between hindrance stressors and mental health symptoms were magnified when participants reported higher levels of all three subscales of occupational calling, whereas calling did not influence the relationship between challenge stressors and the outcomes. The present study builds on recent research showing that although calling is related to numerous positive outcomes, negative effects may also occur. The results of the present study hold potential for interventions to minimize the negative outcomes that can result from possessing an occupational calling.

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为工作而活：职业召唤在应对挑战和阻碍压力中的作用

摘要本研究旨在探讨职业召唤如何影响挑战和障碍压力源、工作动机和心理健康症状之间的关系。个人会因为一种超验的召唤而体验到召唤的存在(即感觉被召唤到某一特定的工作领域)，从事有目的的工作，或者有一种回馈他人的亲社会倾向。具有较高召唤取向的员工对挑战和阻碍压力源的反应都更强。采用前瞻性设计，在时间1评估召唤、挑战和障碍压力源三个分量表，三个月后在时间2评估敬业度和心理健康症状。结果表明，当被试报告职业召唤的三个分量表均较高时，障碍压力源与心理健康症状之间的关系被放大，而职业召唤不影响挑战压力源与结果之间的关系。目前的研究建立在最近的研究基础上，这些研究表明，尽管打电话与许多积极的结果有关，但也可能产生消极的影响。本研究的结果具有干预的潜力，以尽量减少因拥有职业召唤而导致的负面结果。

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Work and Stress PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

CiteScore

11.70

自引率

3.30%

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期刊介绍： Work & Stress is an international, multidisciplinary quarterly presenting high-quality papers concerned with the psychological, social and organizational aspects of occupational health and well-being, and stress and safety management. It is published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. The journal publishes empirical reports, scholarly reviews and theoretical papers. It is directed at occupational health psychologists, work and organizational psychologists, those involved with organizational development, and all concerned with the interplay of work, health and organisations. Research published in Work & Stress relates psychologically salient features of the work environment to their psychological, behavioural and health consequences, focusing on the underlying psychological processes. The journal has become a natural home for research on the work-family interface, social relations at work (including topics such as bullying and conflict at work, leadership and organizational support), workplace interventions and reorganizations, and dimensions and outcomes of worker stress and well-being. Such dimensions and outcomes, both positive and negative, include stress, burnout, sickness absence, work motivation, work engagement and work performance. Of course, submissions addressing other topics in occupational health psychology are also welcomed.