The Relationship Among Associate Pastor’s Calling, Pastoral Stress, Self-Esteem and Job Satisfaction
AUTHORS
Hyoung-Woon Cho,Dept. Student Support Office, Calvin Univ., 184, Mabuk-ro, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Hyoun-Yong Kwon*,Dept. Liberal Arts & Education, Hyupsung Univ., 72, Choerubaek-ro, Bongdam-eup, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
ABSTRACT
This study aims to acknowledge the relationship between the sense of calling and pastoral stress, self-esteem and job satisfaction. For this, 583 assistant pastors were surveyed using random sampling, 487 final results were used for the final analysis for except the insincere ones. The results of the study are as follows. First, as a result of observing the kind of influence on an assistant pastor’s sense of calling, pastoral stress, self-esteem on job satisfaction, the explanatory power that explains an assistant pastor’s job satisfaction is high in the order of pastoral stress, self-esteem, and sense of calling. Secondly, after observing the results of the intermediary role between the assistant pastor’s sense of calling, pastoral stress, self-esteem and job satisfaction, the sense of calling gives a significant influence on job satisfaction by the medium of pastoral stress and self-esteem, and it shows the indirect mediated effect.
KEYWORDS
Assistant pastor, Sense of calling, Pastoral stress, Self-Esteem, Job satisfaction
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