Feeling a “Calling” for Your Career Can Drive You to Overcome Low Confidence

New work from Samuel Kaminsky and Dr. Tara Behrend, in the Journal of Career Assessment, explores the role of social cognition and passion in career choice.  The results of the study, in which participants were asked to identify a job that they wanted to perform and completed a questionnaire that assessed career attitudes, suggest that  calling provides unique predictive power beyond self-efficacy for career outcome expectations, interests, and goals.

The abstract and details for accessing this publication can be found here.