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Navigating conflicting accountabilities: Post-maternity re-entry transitions in India 应对相互冲突的责任：印度产妇后再就业的过渡

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104193

Roopal Gupta, Tanuja Sharma, Nidhi S. Bisht

The return to work after maternity leave is a critical yet underexplored career transition. Existing scholarship largely emphasizes individual adaptation and identity reconstruction, while overlooking how social, relational, and institutional forces intersect to shape mothers' experiences and decisions during the return to work. Understanding this gap is vital, as the post-maternity return often determines women's career continuity and reveals how subtle relational forces sustain gendered inequalities. We draw on the concept of felt accountability, an internalized sense of being answerable to salient audiences, to examine how returning mothers make sense of and navigate competing demands. Using qualitative data from highly skilled women in India's information technology (IT) sector and a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, we explore how they manage conflicting accountabilities amid high professional expectations, rapid skill obsolescence, and cultural norms positioning mothers as primary caregivers. By foregrounding felt accountability we offer a socially embedded and relational perspective on post-maternity transitions, showing how mothers negotiate tensions between caregiving and career in ways that are emotionally charged, context-sensitive, and continually evolving. Our findings reveal how temporal construals shape felt accountability, as mothers shift between high-level (future-focused, value-driven) and low-level (immediate, feasibility-driven) interpretations in response to competing pressures, that, in turn, influence decisions about work and caregiving. We position accountability to the self as a vital yet overlooked facet of felt accountability, showing how internal values render the self a salient audience alongside external one. Finally, we advance career transition scholarship by redirecting attention from inward-looking identity reconstruction to accountability-driven, socially embedded processes.

产假结束后重返工作岗位是一个关键但尚未得到充分探索的职业转变。现有的学术研究主要强调个人适应和身份重建，而忽略了社会、关系和制度力量如何相互作用，塑造母亲在重返工作岗位时的经历和决定。了解这一差距至关重要，因为产后回归往往决定了女性的职业连续性，并揭示了微妙的关系力量如何维持性别不平等。我们利用责任感的概念，一种对重要受众负责的内在感觉，来研究回归的母亲如何理解和应对相互竞争的需求。利用来自印度信息技术（IT）行业高技能女性的定性数据和解释学现象学方法，我们探讨了她们如何在高职业期望、快速技能过时和将母亲定位为主要照顾者的文化规范中管理相互冲突的责任。通过强调感觉责任，我们提供了一个社会嵌入和关系的视角来看待产后过渡，展示了母亲如何以情感充沛、环境敏感和不断发展的方式来协调照顾和职业之间的紧张关系。我们的研究结果揭示了时间解释是如何塑造感觉责任的，因为母亲在应对竞争压力时，在高水平（关注未来、价值驱动）和低水平（即时、可行性驱动）解释之间转换，而这反过来又影响了工作和照顾的决定。我们将对自我的责任定位为感觉责任的一个重要但被忽视的方面，展示了内部价值观如何使自我与外部价值观一起成为重要的受众。最后，我们通过将注意力从内向的身份重建转移到问责驱动的社会嵌入过程来推进职业转型研究。

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Identifying macro-level disability-job fit to predict people with disabilities’ occupational representation: Leveraging O*NET and Census datasets 利用O*NET和人口普查数据集：确定宏观层面的残疾工作适合度，以预测残疾人的职业代表性

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104192

Felix Y. Wu , Victoria T. Udomsirirat , David J.G. Dwertmann , Frederick L. Oswald

It is an economic and ethical imperative to facilitate the inclusion of people with disabilities (PWDs) in the workplace. This point, along with the more specific need to improve personnel decisions in organizations (e.g., hiring, accommodation), recommends greater research and practice addressing how functional limitations of PWDs align with the job's essential functions (i.e., disability-job fit). Complementing prior micro-level research, we operationalize disability-job fit at the macro level, extending the Disability Contingency Framework (Dwertmann & McAlpine, 2023) and integrating job analysis. We merge two large national occupational datasets (i.e., the Occupation Information Network [O*NET] and the American Community Survey [ACS]; k = 184 occupations) to understand how disability-job fit, the overlap between functional limitations of PWD and job requirements, relates to representation of PWDs in occupations. Our macro-level results are theoretically and practically important by identifying data-driven sources of disability-job fit, and showing where they contrast existing disability-job fit stereotype literature. Our results therefore practically inform career guidance and personnel selection involving PWDs, while encouraging further disability job-fit research involving macro-level characteristics.

促进残疾人士融入工作场所，既是经济上的需要，也是道德上的需要。这一点，以及改善组织人员决策的更具体需求（例如，招聘，住宿），建议进行更多的研究和实践，以解决残疾人士的功能限制如何与工作的基本功能（即残疾与工作的契合度）相一致。作为之前微观层面研究的补充，我们在宏观层面上对残疾-工作契合度进行了操作，扩展了残疾应急框架（Dwertmann & McAlpine, 2023），并整合了工作分析。我们合并了两个大型的国家职业数据集（即职业信息网络[O*NET]和美国社区调查[ACS]； k = 184个职业），以了解残疾-工作匹配，残疾人士的功能限制与工作要求之间的重叠，如何与职业中残疾人士的代表性相关。我们宏观层面的研究结果在理论上和实践上都很重要，因为它确定了残疾-工作契合度的数据驱动来源，并展示了它们与现有残疾-工作契合度刻板印象文献的对比。因此，我们的研究结果实际上为残疾人士的职业指导和人员选择提供了依据，同时鼓励进一步从宏观层面上研究残疾人士的工作适合性。

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Linking personality traits to vocational interest profiles via the circumplex: Research synthesis and new applications 人格特征与职业兴趣的关联：研究综合与新应用

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104191

Julian M. Etzel , Bart Wille , Filip De Fruyt , Gabriel Nagy

Vocational interests and personality traits are among the most important and widely studied individual differences constructs in vocational psychology. Although many studies have examined their bivariate associations, no study has approached this question from a profile-based perspective. In this study, we close this gap by linking personality traits to vocational interest profiles via the circumplex, an established model for structuring the interrelations between interest domains. We illustrate potential pitfalls of focusing solely on isolated bivariate associations and show how the circumplex makes it possible to summarize and visualize complex correlation patterns in a directly interpretable way. Study 1 presents a meta-analytic reanalysis of the relationships between FFM traits and RIASEC interests (N = 18,291, k = 27). Study 2 uses a latent circumplex model to better understand how strong these associations truly are and to examine their consistency across different interest taxonomies. Specifically, we apply the latent circumplex model to the aggregated data from Study 1 and to two different datasets from Germany (N = 1032) and Belgium (N = 1317). Results were remarkably consistent, demonstrating that personality traits are more strongly associated with profile configurations compared to profile levels. Openness was almost as strongly related to individual differences in interest configurations as a typical interest scale. Similarly strong associations were found for Extraversion and Agreeableness, whereas those with Neuroticism and Conscientiousness were weaker. These results shed new light on how interests and traits can be integrated, with important implications for theory and practice.

职业兴趣和人格特质是职业心理学中最重要的、被广泛研究的个体差异构念。虽然许多研究已经检查了它们的双变量关联，但没有研究从基于档案的角度来处理这个问题。在本研究中，我们将人格特质与职业兴趣档案联系起来，通过建立兴趣域之间相互关系的环域模型来缩小这一差距。我们说明了仅仅关注孤立的二元关联的潜在陷阱，并展示了如何以直接可解释的方式总结和可视化复杂的相关模式。研究1对FFM性状与RIASEC兴趣之间的关系进行了meta分析（N = 18,291, k = 27）。研究2使用潜在循环模型来更好地理解这些关联的真正强度，并检查它们在不同兴趣分类中的一致性。具体而言，我们将潜在环形模型应用于研究1的汇总数据以及来自德国（N = 1032）和比利时（N = 1317）的两个不同数据集。结果非常一致，表明人格特质与侧面轮廓结构的关系比侧面轮廓水平的关系更强。开放性与兴趣配置的个体差异的关系几乎与典型的兴趣量表的关系一样密切。同样，外向性和宜人性也有很强的关联性，而神经质和尽责性的关联性较弱。这些结果为如何将兴趣和特质结合起来提供了新的思路，对理论和实践都具有重要意义。

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Emergence of calling in the domain of creative work, and the role of context: The stories of manga artists 创意工作领域中召唤的出现，以及背景的作用：漫画艺术家的故事

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104181

Enrico Fontana , Evgenia I. Lysova , Kaori Sato , Junko Araki

Despite growing attention to calling and its benefits for workers and organizations, little is known regarding how calling emerges in the domain of creative work as a distinct type of nonstandard work, and how context shapes its emergence. To address this knowledge void, we offer a unique qualitative study of the career journey of Japanese manga artists who draw manga and view creative work as their calling. We show that manga artists' calling emerges through the gradual enactment of their existential passion for drawing manga, beginning in their formative years, and is intertwined with and mutually reinforced by multi-layered validation—e.g., social circle, professional, and continuous validation. In their career journey, we demonstrate that context operates dually, both constraining and enabling the emergence of calling. Based on these insights, we theorize a model and show manga artists' transition from a metaphorical ‘shell’—symbolizing an initial solitary existence—toward breaking free as their existential passion is enacted and their professional calling emerges. We finally contribute to the literature on calling by offering insights into creative work and foregrounding the crucial role of context in shaping the emerge of calling.

尽管越来越多的人关注召唤及其对员工和组织的好处，但关于召唤如何在创造性工作领域作为一种独特的非标准工作出现，以及环境如何塑造它的出现，人们知之甚少。为了解决这一知识空白，我们对日本漫画艺术家的职业生涯进行了独特的定性研究，他们画漫画并将创意工作视为自己的使命。我们展示了漫画艺术家的召唤是通过他们对漫画的存在主义激情的逐渐制定而出现的，从他们的成长阶段开始，并与多层次的验证交织在一起，相互加强。，社交圈，专业，不断验证。在他们的职业生涯中，我们证明了环境的双重作用，既限制又促进了召唤的出现。基于这些见解，我们理论化了一个模型，并展示了漫画艺术家从隐喻性的“壳”（象征着最初的孤独存在）向突破自由的过渡，因为他们的存在激情被制定出来，他们的职业召唤出现了。最后，我们通过提供对创造性工作的见解，并在塑造召唤的出现中突出环境的关键作用，为召唤的文献做出了贡献。

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Careers and labor-market stability vs. dynamisms: Using big-data to optimize career trajectories for better outcomes 职业和劳动力市场稳定性vs.动态：利用大数据优化职业轨迹以获得更好的结果

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104180

Yehuda Baruch , David S.A. Guttormsen , Stanley B. Gyoshev , Trifon Pavkov , Miana Plesca

In career and human resource management, long-standing questions about career dynamics, and more specifically, how to optimize career progress via dynamic moves or stable employment, remain unresolved. Challenging the myth of career stability in the modern labor market, this study leverages a unique, nation-wide big data set of approximately 3 million Bulgarian workers and 300,000 employers over an 11-year period to definitively answer the long-standing debate about career dynamism. We address conflicting arguments about the existence of substantial contemporary career dynamics. Theoretically, we expand both the boundaryless career and career ecosystem theories, subsequently providing new evidence for key scholarly debates regarding new careers' dynamics and practical advice for individuals. We employed linear probability analysis and sensitivity analysis to test our hypotheses. Our findings reveal a highly fluid environment where less than a third of the workforce experiences career stability. We identify eight distinct clusters of career boundary-crossings (job, employer, and sector changes) and demonstrate that, contrary to traditional views, frequent career moves are often associated with better financial outcomes. Notably, job and employer changes yield significant short-term wage growth and long-term wage increases, while sector changes often lag behind. We also uncover crucial temporal dynamics: the positive wage impact of career transitions amplifies over time, whereas the boost to wage growth is most pronounced immediately after a move. The implications for individual career management, organizational talent strategies, and national labor policies in navigating this dynamic landscape are substantial.

在职业和人力资源管理中，长期存在的关于职业动态的问题，更具体地说，如何通过动态移动或稳定就业来优化职业发展，仍然没有得到解决。这项研究挑战了现代劳动力市场中职业稳定的神话，利用一个独特的、全国性的大数据集，在11年的时间里，大约300万保加利亚工人和30万雇主，明确回答了长期以来关于职业活力的争论。我们解决了关于大量当代职业动态存在的相互矛盾的论点。从理论上讲，我们扩展了无边界职业和职业生态系统理论，随后为关于新职业动态的关键学术辩论提供了新的证据，并为个人提供了实用建议。我们采用线性概率分析和敏感性分析来检验我们的假设。我们的研究结果揭示了一个高度流动的环境，只有不到三分之一的劳动力经历了职业稳定。我们确定了八种不同的职业边界跨越（工作、雇主和部门的变化），并证明，与传统观点相反，频繁的职业变动通常与更好的财务结果有关。值得注意的是，工作和雇主的变化会带来显著的短期工资增长和长期工资增长，而行业变化往往滞后。我们还发现了关键的时间动态：职业转型对工资的积极影响会随着时间的推移而扩大，而对工资增长的推动在跳槽后立即最为明显。这对个人职业管理、组织人才战略和国家劳工政策在驾驭这一动态景观方面的影响是实质性的。

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Under my umbrella? Gig workers' perspectives on career sustainability as employees in Swedish umbrella companies 在我的伞下？瑞典伞形公司员工对零工职业可持续性的看法

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104182

Franziska Müller , Linda Weidenstedt , Claudia Bernhard-Oettel , Constanze Eib

The rise of non-standard work arrangements has increased the need for research on career sustainability within these contexts, yet insights remain limited. In this study, we explore how gig workers employed by so-called umbrella companies understand and navigate their seemingly contradictory work arrangement. Building on the framework of sustainable careers, we conducted a reflexive thematic analysis with gig workers employed by Swedish umbrella companies. Results challenge the common portrayal of gig work as inherently precarious, as workers found ways to create a meaningful and sustainable career sequence. Participants perceived umbrella companies as enabling hyper-flexibility and hyper-individualization, thereby enhancing their person-career fit. However, they also acknowledged the limitations and potential societal challenges of this work model. We discuss how the sustainable career framework can capture the complexity of how employed gig workers made sense of their careers.

非标准工作安排的兴起增加了对这些背景下职业可持续性研究的需求，但见解仍然有限。在这项研究中，我们探讨了所谓的保护伞公司雇佣的零工工人如何理解和驾驭他们看似矛盾的工作安排。在可持续职业框架的基础上，我们对瑞典伞形公司雇用的零工工人进行了反思性主题分析。研究结果挑战了人们对零工本质上不稳定的普遍看法，因为工人们找到了创造有意义和可持续的职业序列的方法。参与者认为伞形公司能够实现高度的灵活性和高度的个性化，从而提高他们个人与职业的契合度。然而，他们也承认这种工作模式的局限性和潜在的社会挑战。我们讨论了可持续的职业框架如何能够捕捉到受雇的零工如何理解其职业的复杂性。

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Pathways to second chances: A multidisciplinary integrative review of 25 years of research on the employment of formerly incarcerated individuals 途径到第二次机会：一个多学科综合审查25年研究的就业前监禁的人

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104179

C. Allen Gorman , Sarah C. Tucker , Tamanna K. Patel , Joseph R. Himmler , Tanya F. Contreras

In this paper, we present an integrative review of the research literature on the challenges and opportunities surrounding the employment of formerly incarcerated individuals (FIIs). Our primary aim is to integrate 25 years of multidisciplinary evidence into vocational behavior scholarship, offering an employment life-cycle framework that identifies research gaps and practical implications for employers. Grounded in a multidisciplinary approach, we synthesize research across various domains, including criminal justice, psychology, sociology, law, economics, and management, to provide a holistic understanding of the systemic barriers that hinder FIIs' reintegration into the workforce. We introduce an integrative framework that examines the employment life cycle of FIIs, encompassing recruitment, selection, onboarding, development, and retention. We also highlight the critical role of social stigmatization, lack of access to vocational training, and the systemic disconnection between correctional institutions and labor market demands. Furthermore, our review emphasizes the importance of employer engagement and policy interventions in fostering inclusive hiring practices that support the successful reintegration of FIIs. We conclude with a call for future research and practical recommendations focusing on individual, organizational, and systemic factors that influence successful FII employment, highlighting the necessity of tailored vocational programs, social network support, and supportive workplace practices.

在本文中，我们提出了一个综合的研究文献的挑战和机遇，围绕前监禁的个人（FIIs）的就业。我们的主要目标是将25年来的多学科证据整合到职业行为研究中，提供一个就业生命周期框架，以确定研究差距和对雇主的实际影响。在多学科方法的基础上，我们综合了各个领域的研究，包括刑事司法、心理学、社会学、法律、经济学和管理学，以全面了解阻碍外国投资者重新融入劳动力市场的系统性障碍。我们介绍了一个综合框架，该框架考察了外国投资机构的就业生命周期，包括招聘、选择、入职、发展和保留。我们还强调了社会污名化、缺乏获得职业培训的机会以及惩教机构与劳动力市场需求之间的系统性脱节所起的关键作用。此外，我们的回顾强调了雇主参与和政策干预在促进包容性招聘实践方面的重要性，这些实践支持外国金融机构成功重返社会。最后，我们呼吁未来的研究和实践建议，重点关注个人、组织和系统因素对FII成功就业的影响，强调量身定制的职业计划、社会网络支持和支持性工作场所实践的必要性。

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Navigating crisis in non-standard work: Social entrepreneurs' sensemaking and purpose protection during career shocks 非标准工作中的危机导航：社会企业家在职业冲击中的意义建构与目的保护

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104178

Andreana Drencheva , Wee Chan Au

This study advances current understanding of career shocks among non-standard workers by investigating how social entrepreneurs, as a novel group of non-standard workers pursuing purpose, engage in sensemaking during career shocks. Our inductive analysis of in-depth interviews with 39 Bangladeshi social entrepreneurs facing a crisis revealed three distinct sensemaking patterns: ‘mission-neglected preservation,’ ‘mission-protective collaboration,’ and ‘mission-validating continuity’ based on identity structure and disruption valence. These patterns explicate how the same external events can generate varied career shock experiences. By introducing a novel group of non-standard workers who either neglect or protect purpose in a shared crisis, we advance conceptual insights on career shocks, social entrepreneurship, and non-standard work.

本研究通过调查社会企业家作为一个追求目标的新型非标准工作者群体，在职业冲击中如何参与意义制造，推进了目前对非标准工作者职业冲击的理解。我们对39位面临危机的孟加拉国社会企业家的深度访谈进行归纳分析，揭示了三种不同的意义生成模式：基于身份结构和破坏价的“使命忽视保护”、“使命保护合作”和“使命验证连续性”。这些模式解释了相同的外部事件如何产生不同的职业冲击体验。通过介绍一群在共同危机中忽视或保护目标的新非标准工人，我们提出了关于职业冲击、社会企业家精神和非标准工作的概念见解。

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Taking dynamics and their origins seriously: Work-family conflict trajectories and their gendered antecedents in work and nonwork support 认真对待动力及其起源：工作-家庭冲突轨迹及其在工作和非工作支持中的性别前因

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104177

Genping Ye, Michail Veliziotis , Guy Vernon

Containing work-family conflict is crucial for sustainable careers. This study examines work-to-family (WtFC) and family-to-work (FtWC) conflict trajectories, deploying the longitudinal Work, Family, and Health Survey on US healthcare and IT employees. It identifies five distinct profiles for 1843 individuals across four waves (T1–T4) spanning 18 months: Stable High, Stable Fairly-low, Stable Low, Increasing, and Decreasing. Stability in WtFC/FtWC is common, aligning with Dynamic Equilibrium Theory, but notable changes are also apparent, supporting Conservation of Resources Theory. The effect of initial levels (T1) of, and early changes (T1–T2) in, work and nonwork support is then examined. Individuals with higher initial support levels or larger early increases are more likely to belong to Stable Low, Stable Fairly-low, or Decreasing profiles than Stable High or Increasing ones. However, gender moderates these relationships, with support generally having stronger effects on women's membership in WtFC profiles and men's in FtWC profiles. The findings partially align with traditional gender roles typically linking women with caregiving and men with breadwinning, but also suggest shifting gender roles, with women valuing their careers and men actively engaging in family.

遏制工作与家庭的冲突对职业的可持续发展至关重要。本研究考察了工作对家庭（WtFC）和家庭对工作（FtWC）的冲突轨迹，对美国医疗保健和IT员工进行了纵向工作、家庭和健康调查。它确定了1843个人在四个波（T1-T4）中跨越18个月的五种不同的特征：稳定高，稳定相当低，稳定低，增加和减少。WtFC/FtWC的稳定性是普遍的，符合动态均衡理论，但也有明显的变化，支持资源守恒理论。然后检查工作和非工作支持的初始水平（T1）和早期变化（T1 - t2）的影响。具有较高的初始支持水平或较大的早期增长的个体更有可能属于稳定低、稳定相当低或下降型，而不是稳定高或增加型。然而，性别调节了这些关系，支持通常对妇女在WtFC档案中的成员资格和男子在FtWC档案中的成员资格有更大的影响。这一发现部分符合传统的性别角色，即女性照顾孩子，男性养家糊口，但也建议改变性别角色，女性重视自己的事业，男性积极参与家庭。

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Living a calling despite the challenges of the gig economy? The role of meaning-making and work alienation 尽管面临零工经济的挑战，但仍坚持自己的职业？意义制造与工作异化的作用

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104175

Lorenz Affolter , Daniel Spurk , Caroline Straub

This article aims to shed light on the diverse career experiences of gig workers by investigating the relationship between gig work challenges and living a calling. Drawing from the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory and the Work as Calling Theory (WCT), we conceptualize gig work challenges as hindrance demands which can potentially undermine individuals' sense of living a calling through a health impairment process mediated by work alienation. Beyond that, we look at meaning-making as a personal resource that can buffer negative effects of hindrance demands for living a calling. In a three-wave time-lagged sample of 723 gig workers that work through online labor platforms (OLPs), we investigated the relationship between gig work challenges and living a calling. We found that gig work challenges were negatively related to living a calling. This relationship was fully mediated by work alienation. Furthermore, we found that meaning-making buffered the effect of these challenges on living a calling through work alienation. The results support the idea that hindrance demands are negatively related to living a calling and that the way individuals cope with hindrances plays an important role in maintaining a sense of living a calling. We discuss the implications of these findings for the WCT and reflect on its relevance for our understanding of subjective career success in the context of the gig economy.

本文旨在通过调查零工挑战与生活使命之间的关系，揭示零工工人的不同职业经历。根据工作需求-资源（JD-R）理论和工作作为使命理论（WCT），我们将零工工作挑战定义为障碍需求，这种需求可能会通过工作异化介导的健康损害过程破坏个人的生活使命感。除此之外，我们把意义创造看作是一种个人资源，可以缓冲生活使命的障碍需求的负面影响。在723名通过在线劳动平台（olp）工作的零工工人的三波时差样本中，我们调查了零工工作挑战与生活使命之间的关系。我们发现零工工作的挑战与生活的使命是负相关的。这种关系完全被工作异化所中介。此外，我们发现意义制造通过工作异化缓冲了这些挑战对生活召唤的影响。研究结果支持了障碍需求与“活出使命”负相关的观点，个人应对障碍的方式在维持“活出使命”感方面起着重要作用。我们讨论了这些发现对WCT的影响，并反思了它与我们理解零工经济背景下主观职业成功的相关性。

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