The vocation identity questionnaire: Measuring the sense of calling

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Volumn 18, Issue , 2007, Pages 99-120

  Dreher, Diane E ^a   Holloway, Katherine A ^b   Schoenfelder, Erin ^c  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Police Department   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 43249142195     PISSN: 10468064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004158511.i-301.42     Document Type: Article

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