The Impact Of Awe On Calling

Nowadays,people start to pay attention to the meaning of work,therefore career calling has gradually attracted the attention of researchers.Calling is not only beneficial to the physical and mental health of the individual but also has a positive impact on the organization in which the individual works.Therefore,it is very important to cultivate employees’ calling.However,most of the existing research on the antecedent variables of career calling is limited to the work area and has a chaotic relationship with career calling,which cannot provide implications for the cultivation of career calling.Calling is closely related to transcendental power,and transcendental power is also closely connected to awe.Positive emotional gratitude has been shown can positively affect career calling.And then,does awe,which is also a positive emotion,have a similar effect on Career Calling? However,there is no direct study that proves the relationship between the two in psychology.Calling can be divided into Perceiving a Calling and Living a Calling.It is important to study whether people can live out their calling because compared with the presence of a calling,living one’s calling has a stronger relationship with positive consequences.Meanwhile,there are two forms of awe as well,Awe and Trait Awe,they represent the differences in the frequency of experiencing awe.Therefore,this study demonstrates the relationship between awe,trait awe and perceiving a calling,living a calling.Given that just-world beliefs-self,as a personality trait,is associated with overcoming difficulties and investing in long-term goals,may mediate this relationship,we also further examine the role of just-world belief-self in this relationship.While enriching the existing literature,we hope to provide implications for the education of career calling.In study 1,75 valid participants were selected and randomly assigned to the awe group and the control group,the recall method was used to manipulate participants’ emotions(awe and neutral emotion),and we used The Brief Calling Scale and The Living One’s Calling Scale to measure participants’ level of Perceiving Calling and Living Calling.The results showed that participants in the awe group reported a higher level of perceiving calling,while there was no significant difference between the two groups in living calling.In study 2,we collected data from 287 participants online by questionnaire method.we used the Trait Awe Subscale from The Dispositional Positive Emotion Scales,The Brief Calling Scale,The Living One’s Calling Scale,and The Belief in a just world-self Scale to investigate the relationship between awe,trait awe and perceiving calling living calling,as well as the influence of belief in a just world-self on the relationship.Results revealed that perceiving calling played a mediating role in the relationship between trait awe and living calling.Belief in a just world-Self played a moderating role in the relationship between trait awe and living calling,and the direct effect of trait awe on the living calling was higher for those individuals with a high level of Belief in a Just World-self.