Proactive personality and career adaptability: The role of thriving at work

By Zhou Jiang. 2017

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This is a pioneer study to examine the mechanism underlying the relationship between proactive personality and career adaptability. Using a moderated mediation approach, it tested the mediating effect of thriving on this relationship and the moderating effect of proactive personality on the relationship between thriving and career adaptability. Three hundred and sixty-four adult employees participated in the survey study. Results demonstrated that proactive personality first promoted individuals' thriving at work, which in turn led to improved career adaptability. In addition, the effect of thriving on career adaptability was found to be stronger for those individuals with low rather than high proactive personality. In supporting this, the moderated mediation analysis further indicated that low proactive individuals, compared to their high proactive counterparts, relied more on thriving when developing career adaptability resources. These findings have important implications for career research and career counseling practices.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Anne‐Kathrin Kleine
2. Bingqing Wu
3. Yanjun Liu
4. Shiyong Xu
5. W. Ning
6. H. Zacher
7. C. Rudolph
8. Bainan Zhang

In Safety Research

1. C. Rudolph
2. H. Zacher
3. Yanjun Liu
4. Shiyong Xu
5. Bainan Zhang
6. Ghulam Abid
7. Ceylan Alkan
8. Yilmaz Akgunduz

In Social Psychology

1. C. Rudolph
2. H. Zacher
3. Iqra Sajjad
4. Anne‐Kathrin Kleine
5. Natasha Saman Elahi
6. Bingqing Wu
7. Yanjun Liu
8. Shiyong Xu

Citations in the corpus

• Proactive Personality and Creative Behavior: Examining the Role of Thriving at Work and High-Involvement HR Practices (2020, background): “tive personality is related to his or her creative behavior remain largely unexplored (Anderson et al., 2014; Jiang, 2017; Liu, Gong, Zhou, & Huang, 2017).”
• Thriving at Work: How a Paradox Mindset Influences Innovative Work Behavior (2019, background): “Previous studies showed that dispositional proactivity was positively related to employees’ thriving at work (Porath et al., 2012; Jiang, 2017) and innovative work behavior (e.g., Giebels, de Reuver, Rispens, & Ufkes, 2016).”
• Perceived organizational support, employee creativity and proactive personality: The mediating effect of meaning of work (2018, result): “Moreover, this study proved that meaning of work is correlated with creativity, thereby supporting earlier findings from Cai et al. (2015) and Jiang (2017), who concluded that meaning of work has a mediating effect and that creative behaviours may differ depending on the environment.”
• The influence of prosocial motivation and civility on work engagement:The mediating role of thriving at work (2018, background): “…(Carmeli & Spreitzer, 2009); positive heatlh (Christianson, Spreitzer, Sutcliffe, & Grant, 2005; Porath et al., 2012); carreer adaptability (Jiang, 2017); subjective well-being (Basinska, 2017); affective organizational commitment (Walumbwa et al., 2017); life satisfaction (Zhai, Wang, &…”
• Thriving at work: A meta‐analysis (2019, background): “Moreover, several studies provide evidence for a positive relationship between proactivity and thriving at work (Jiang, 2017; Mushtaq, Abid, Sarwar, & Ahmed, 2017; Niessen, Sonnentag, & Sach, 2012).”