Linking proactive personality and the Big Five to motivation to learn and development activity

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Major, Debra A.; Turner, Jonathan E.; Fletcher, Thomas D.
• 署名单位: Old Dominion University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.4.927
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 927-935
• 关键词: proactive personality; motivation to learn; five factor model of personality; development activity

摘要

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 proactive personality, openness, extraversion, and conscientiousness predicted motivation to learn. In addition, motivation to learn was positively related to objectively assessed development activity. Proactive personality, extraversion, and openness had significant indirect links to development activity. Hierarchical regression results suggested that proactive personality had significant incremental validity in the prediction of motivation to learn over all relevant Big Five facets.