introduction: the purpose of this study was to determine the role of proactive personality in entrepreneurial intentions and career success. methods: this study was a descriptive-correlatal research. the statistical population of the study was all the personnel's isfahan university of medical sciences were been selected from which a sample of 308 employees randomly. the questionnaires of this r...

Previous proactivity research has predominantly assumed that proactive personality generates positive environmental changes in the workplace. Grounded in recent research on personality development from a broad interactionist theoretical approach, the present article investigates whether work characteristics, including job demands, job control, social support from supervisors and coworkers, and ...

Purpose – This paper sets out to examine proactive personality in relation to job demands, job resources and engagement. Design/methodology/approach – The current study employed a two-wave complete panel study among 794 Dutch government employees. Based upon the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, previous studies, job crafting theories, and Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, hypotheses on...

This research empirically examines the relationship between trust and voice, proactive personality and voice, and whether proactive personality moderates the relationship between trust and voice. A total of 105 employees were surveyed using a 14 item instrument to assess the subjects’ responses to the factors under investigation, as well as demographic characteristics. Based on regression analy...

The authors investigated links between the Big Five, proactive personality, and motivation to learn. Web-based survey data were collected at 2 points in time from 183 employees of a financial services firm. Results showed that proactive personality was, only in part, a composite of Big Five facets, which accounted for 26% of its variance. Structural equation modeling results demonstrated that p...

The present longitudinal investigation examined borderline personality features as a predictor of aggression 1 year later. Moderation by physiological reactivity and gender was also explored. One hundred ninety-six children (M = 10.11 years, SD = 0.64) participated in a laboratory stress protocol in which their systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and skin conductance reactivity t...

The present study aims to explore the effect of leader proactive personality on team outcomes and the moderating role of subordinate seeking resources behavior. Using a sample of 53 work teams from a Chinese pharmaceutical sales company, we found that when the level of subordinate seeking resources is low, leader proactive personality increases team-level exhaustion, which in turn is negatively...

This study examined the incremental validity of proactive personality for predicting overall job performance over the Big Five in the context of an innovative software engineering job. Proactive personality and the Big Five were measured in a sample of 243 engineers and overall job performance was assessed through supervisor ratings in a sub-sample of 95 of these engineers. Results showed that ...