Calling As A Double-Edges Sword Dual Meditate Effects Of Daily Work Time And Positive Emotion

With the development of society and boundaryless career,people don't regard work as the only way to make a living or access to social status,they focus on life purpose,and wish to experience meaning and value through work.Calling got more attention in occupational phycology,organizational behavior and management domain and fruitful research findings in the past 10 years.It has been found that calling can bring positive outputs to many aspects of individuals,including career maturity,career satisfaction and life satisfaction.However,researches on negative impact of calling are limited and lack of empirical research.Current study aims at exploring the potential "double-edged sword" effect of calling and improving the mechanism which will point out a more effective motivating method for managers.Therefore,the purpose of current study is to explore the respective relations between calling and daily work time,positive emotion and the meditations of daily work time,positive emotion between calling and daily life quality after work,fatigue.We adopt daily research method of experience sampling and choose enterprise stuffs as study objects.We collected 206 questionnaires.The results showed that calling was positively correlated with daily work time and positive emotions.Daily work time negatively predict daily life quality after work,positively predict fatigue;positive emotion positively predicts daily life quality after work,negatively predict fatigue.Daily work time and positive emotion mediate the relationship between calling and daily life quality after work,fatigue.Positive emotion plays more effective role than daily work time.The result is calling was positively correlated with daily life quality after work,and negatively correlated with fatigue.Finally,this paper summarizes the theoretical and practical significance of the study,and also points out the limitation and prospect for further study.