Reciprocal Relationship Between Proactive Personality and Work Characteristics: A Latent Change Score Approach
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in: The Journal of applied psychology, Jahrgang 99, Nr. 5, 09.2014, S. 948-965.
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T1 - Reciprocal Relationship Between Proactive Personality and Work Characteristics
T2 - A Latent Change Score Approach
AU - Li, Wen-Dong
AU - Fay, Doris
AU - Frese, Michael
AU - Harms, Peter D
AU - Gao, Xiang Yu
PY - 2014/9
Y1 - 2014/9
N2 - 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 organizational constraints, change proactive personality over time and, more important, reciprocal relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics. Latent change score analyses based on longitudinal data collected in 3 waves across 3 years show that job demands and job control have positive lagged effects on increases in proactive personality. In addition, proactive personality exerts beneficial lagged effects on increases in job demands, job control, and supervisory support, and on decreases in organizational constraints. Dynamic reciprocal relationships are observed between proactive personality with job demands and job control. The revealed corresponsive change relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics contribute to the proactive personality literature by illuminating more nuanced interplays between the agentic person and work characteristics, and also have important practical implications for organizations and employees.
AB - 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 organizational constraints, change proactive personality over time and, more important, reciprocal relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics. Latent change score analyses based on longitudinal data collected in 3 waves across 3 years show that job demands and job control have positive lagged effects on increases in proactive personality. In addition, proactive personality exerts beneficial lagged effects on increases in job demands, job control, and supervisory support, and on decreases in organizational constraints. Dynamic reciprocal relationships are observed between proactive personality with job demands and job control. The revealed corresponsive change relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics contribute to the proactive personality literature by illuminating more nuanced interplays between the agentic person and work characteristics, and also have important practical implications for organizations and employees.
KW - Management studies
KW - Dynamic reciprocal relationship
KW - Latent change score
KW - Personality change
KW - Proactive personality
KW - Work characteristics
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Business psychology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84925865940&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/a0036169
DO - 10.1037/a0036169
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 24635530
VL - 99
SP - 948
EP - 965
JO - The Journal of applied psychology
JF - The Journal of applied psychology
SN - 0021-9010
IS - 5
ER -