ERIC Number: EJ900475
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Sep
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The Salience of a Career Calling among College Students: Exploring Group Differences and Links to Religiousness, Life Meaning, and Life Satisfaction
Duffy, Ryan D.; Sedlacek, William E.
Career Development Quarterly, v59 n1 p27-41 Sep 2010
The authors examined the degree to which 1st-year college students endorse a career calling and how levels of calling differ across demographic variables and religiousness, life meaning, and life satisfaction. Forty-four percent of students believed that having a career calling was mostly or totally true of them, and 28% responded to searching for a calling in the same fashion. Students seeking advanced professional degrees were more likely to feel a career calling, and the presence of a calling was found to weakly correlate with religiousness and life satisfaction and moderately correlate with life meaning. Practice implications are suggested. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Life Satisfaction, College Freshmen, Religion, Correlation, Student Attitudes, Academic Aspiration, Race, Gender Differences, Religious Factors, Measures (Individuals), Questionnaires
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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