Predicting Ordination, Early-Career Mobility, and Career Adaptation from Ministerial Applicants' Psychological Assessment Results
The occupational group of ordained ministers is currently facing two types of change: the role of religion in Western societies is transforming, and the boundaryless work culture is expanding even further. As the profession is becoming more demanding, leaving clergy has become a worldwide problem ac...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
[2016]
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Review of religious research
Year: 2016, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 543-569 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko
/ Pastor
/ Psychologisches Gutachten
/ Occupational mobility
/ Flexibility
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| RelBib Classification: | KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KDD Protestant Church RB Church office; congregation ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Psychological Assessment
B Career mobility B Ordination B Turnover B Career adaptation B Clergy |
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| Summary: | The occupational group of ordained ministers is currently facing two types of change: the role of religion in Western societies is transforming, and the boundaryless work culture is expanding even further. As the profession is becoming more demanding, leaving clergy has become a worldwide problem across denominations. Churches are therefore increasingly applying psychological assessments to screen their applicants for ministry. Surprisingly, no studies have yet looked into the connections of these assessment results and later job-person fit: eventual ordination, early-career turnover and commitment, or early-career job performance and job satisfaction. In this study, personality metatraits (stability and plasticity), general mental ability, and social and attributional strategies were assessed for 785 persons heading for ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland during 2006-2010. In a follow-up in 2012 (n = 314, 40 %), career mobility and career adaptation were inspected. The results indicate that the most influential feature is the determination of the applicant. Other aspects related to a successful career pattern were stability and absence of pessimistic strategies. The study confirms that personality metatraits are an applicable approach in selection assessment. Overall, the study provides an outlook on the entry stage recruitment to a vocational religious occupation in the boundaryless age of work. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-016-0254-5 |