| Influencing Factors | Main Viewpoint | Representative Research |
| Group Category | Calling has a religious background, people with calling are likely to be religious [16] | Religious Personage |
| College students also have a strong calling, which may be due to the modern understanding of the calling is rarely involved in the concept of religion, while as “it is intended to do a career” [17] [18] | College Group | |
| People of all ages, socioeconomic status, professional nature, and salary standards will view their work as calling [3] [18] | General Occupational Groups | |
| Individual Characteristics | Self is an important factor in the discovery of calling, only when people in accordance with their wishes to live truly, in order to clearly understand their own future, can clarify what is their own calling [18] | Self-Clarity |
| Calling is positively correlated with Core Self-Evaluation [6] [19] | Core Self-Evaluation |