Calling and Work Engagement in Priests: The Moderating Role of Social Support

Missiliana Riasnugrahani, Meta Dwijayanthy, Cindy Maria

2021

Abstract

The priest has many jobs and responsibilities to fulfill the vision and missions of the church. This study examines the moderating role of social support from spouses and presbyters in the relationship between calling and work engagement in the priest. Using purposive sampling, we collected 121 priests that had married and worked at least one year as a priest. The age range of respondents was 28-61 years old, and more than half were male. This research data was gathered with the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, Presbyters Support Scale, Spousal Support Scale, and Calling and Vocation Questionnaire-presence Scale. The reliability coefficient of each scale is .94, .89, .92 and .78. With regression technique – Model 2 from Hayes’ PROCESS – we found that the relationship between calling and work engagement in priests is moderated only by presbyters’ support. The results show that emotional and instrumental support from presbyters can increase work engagement in a priest who has a weak calling. However, when analyzing social support by its basic functions, informational support from spouses acts as a moderator in the relationship between calling and work engagement. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Riasnugrahani M., Dwijayanthy M. and Maria C. (2021). Calling and Work Engagement in Priests: The Moderating Role of Social Support. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Humanity Studies and Social Sciences - Volume 1: ICE-HUMS, ISBN 978-989-758-604-0, pages 349-356. DOI: 10.5220/0010752000003112

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-hums21,
author={Missiliana Riasnugrahani and Meta Dwijayanthy and Cindy Maria},
title={Calling and Work Engagement in Priests: The Moderating Role of Social Support},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Humanity Studies and Social Sciences - Volume 1: ICE-HUMS,},
year={2021},
pages={349-356},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010752000003112},
isbn={978-989-758-604-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Humanity Studies and Social Sciences - Volume 1: ICE-HUMS,
TI - Calling and Work Engagement in Priests: The Moderating Role of Social Support
SN - 978-989-758-604-0
AU - Riasnugrahani M.
AU - Dwijayanthy M.
AU - Maria C.
PY - 2021
SP - 349
EP - 356
DO - 10.5220/0010752000003112