Research on personality’s role in coping is inconclusive. Proactive coping ability is one’s tendency to expect and prepare for life’s challenges (Schwarzer & Taubert, 2002). This type of coping provides a refreshing conceptualization of coping that allows an examination of personality’s role in coping that transcends the current situational versus dispositional coping conundrum. Participants (N...

This 4-wave longitudinal study of newcomers in 7 organizations examined preentry knowledge, proactive personality, and socialization influences as antecedents of both proximal (task mastery, role clarity, work group integration, and political knowledge) and distal (organizational commitment, work withdrawal, and turnover) indicators of newcomer adjustment. Results suggest that preentry knowledg...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the contribution of social structural characteristics on employee empowerment and whether proactive personality plays a role in moderating the above stated relationship among managers in Malaysia. Hierarchical regression analyses of 584 responses revealed that social structural characteristics of self-esteem, power distribution, information sharing, kno...

While persuasive evidence has accumulated over the past 15 years documenting an association between schizophrenia and violence, there are 3 unresolved issues. First, does a downward extension of this relationship exist at the nonclinical level with respect to schizotypal personality and aggression in children? Second, is aggression more associated with impulsive reactive aggression or with more...

Animal personalities range from individuals that are shy, cautious, and easily stressed (a "reactive" personality type) to individuals that are bold, innovative, and quick to learn novel tasks, but also prone to routine formation (a "proactive" personality type). Although personality differences should have important consequences for fitness, their underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood...

The numerous temperament and personality constructs in childhood impede the systematic integration of findings on how these individual differences relate to developmental psychopathology. This paper reviews the main temperament and personality theories and proposes a theoretical taxonomy representing the common structure of both temperament and personality traditions within one conceptual frame...

This study aims to determine the effect of perceived organizational support, work meaning and proactive personality on employee creativity. The results data analysis in this are that there is an influence Perceived Organizational Support Employee Creativity, Job Meaning Creativity Proactive Personality also from F test analysis, show Support, Work jointly affects Creativity. Another result coef...