Instead of the traditional view of calling as narrow, immediate, and long-term... Perhaps we should rethink the "shape" of our calling?

You can access our paper for FREE on open access in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology here:
https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12459

Want to learn more? Keep reading this blog post here: https://stevenzhou.us/2023/07/14/whats-your-calling-new-paper-other-news

There's a growing understanding that calling can have negative effects, esp when people perceive a strong calling but find themselves in jobs where they can't "live out" their calling (e.g., tough industries such as entertainment).

This is what inspired our paper (w/ co-authors John Aitken and Lauren Kuykendall). We theorized a new way of thinking about calling as dynamic in “shape” across 3 facets: scope (broad v. narrow), time proximity (immediate v. distal), & duration (short- v. long-term).