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Investigating the Uniqueness and Usefulness of Proactive Personality in Organizational Research: A Meta-Analytic Review

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Ali Nawaz Khan, Naseer Abbas Khan & Khalid Mehmood. (2023) Exploring the relationship between learner proactivity and social capital via online learner interaction: role of perceived peer support. Behaviour & Information Technology 42:11, pages 1818-1832.
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Yunsheng Ruan & Yungui Guo. (2022) Job complexity moderates the relationship between proactive personality and job crafting. Journal of Psychology in Africa 32:6, pages 611-616.
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Roshni Das. (2022) Cultural determinants of national innovativeness: a 56 country Bayesian analysis. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 34:8, pages 933-945.
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Saleh Mohammed Bajaba, Noha Abdullah Alajhar & Abdulah Mohammed Bajaba. (2021) The Bottom-Up Impact of Proactive Personality on Employee Job Crafting: A Serial Mediation Model. The Journal of Psychology 155:6, pages 523-547.
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Bharati B. Belwalkar & Jerome J. Tobacyk. (2018) Toward a Tripartite Model and Measurement of Proactive Personality. Journal of Personality Assessment 100:5, pages 529-538.
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Alexander Henderson, Tudor Țiclău & Dan Balica. (2018) Perceptions of Discretion in Street-Level Public Service: Examining Administrative Governance in Romania. Public Performance & Management Review 41:3, pages 620-647.
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Lesley E. Murphy & Joseph P. Coughlan. (2018) Does it pay to be proactive? Testing proactiveness and the joint effect of internal and external collaboration on key account manager performance. Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management 38:2, pages 205-219.
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Julia Zimmermann, Judith Sarah Preuß & Kathrin Jonkmann. (2024) Proactive personality and international student mobility: Patterns of self-selection and development. Personality and Individual Differences 219, pages 112501.
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Ying Zhang, Fuxi Wang, Guodong Cui, Jinzhao Qu & Yanyuan Cheng. (2022) When and why proactive employees get promoted: A trait activation perspective. Current Psychology 42:36, pages 31701-31712.
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Jin Wan, Mingyue Qin, Wenjun Zhou & Yuanbing Wu. (2023) Effect of proactive personality on employees' pro-social rule breaking: the role of promotion focus and psychological safety climate. Current Psychology.
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Aline Olimpo dos Santos, Cicero Diogo L. Oliveira, José Gilmar C. de Oliveira Junior & Vandick da Silva Batista. (2023) Factors influencing risk perception of inshore and offshore artisanal fishers in a marine protected area in Brazil. Fisheries Management and Ecology.
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Jui-Chen Peng & Chiu-Mei Chen. (2023) Linking proactive personality to proactive customer-service performance: a moderated parallel mediation model. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10:1.
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Xiaoyu Li & Pengcheng Yang. (2023) Facilitate or Diminish? Mechanisms of Perceived Organizational Support on Employee Experience of New Generation Employees. Psychological Reports.
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Laura E. Marler, Susie S. Cox, Marcia J. Simmering, Bryan L. Rogers & Curtis F. Matherne. (2021) Can do and reason to: when are proactive employees willing to share negative information?. International Journal of Organizational Analysis 31:3, pages 646-660.
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Onur Köksal, Murat Güler, Fatih Çetin & Faruk Şahin. (2023) Proactive personality and job performance during cross-cultural service encounters: a moderated mediation model. Baltic Journal of Management 18:2, pages 157-172.
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Mastura Ab. Wahab & Deborah Blackman. (2022) Proactive personalities, trait competitiveness and well-being among retail employees: job burnout as a mediator. Journal of Asia Business Studies 17:1, pages 185-202.
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Roshayati Abdul Hamid. (2022) The Role of Employees’ Technology Readiness, Job Meaningfulness and Proactive Personality in Adaptive Performance. Sustainability 14:23, pages 15696.
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Ashraf Hilal & Concepción Varela-Neira. (2022) Understanding Consumer Adoption of Mobile Banking: Extending the UTAUT2 Model with Proactive Personality. Sustainability 14:22, pages 14708.
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Zeyu Zhang, Han Fang, Yuxiang Luan, Qishu Chen & Jianfeng Peng. (2022) A meta-analysis of proactive personality and career success: The mediating effects of task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Frontiers in Psychology 13.
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Inyong Shin. (2022) You reap what you sow: how proactive individuals are selected as preferred work partners. Current Psychology.
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Andreea N. Kiss, Andres Felipe Cortes & Pol Herrmann. (2022) CEO proactiveness, innovation, and firm performance. The Leadership Quarterly 33:3, pages 101545.
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Haibo Yu, Changli Yan, Zhenhua Dong, Yue Hou & Xiaoyu Guan. (2022) Influence of proactive personality and career calling on employees’ job performance: A moderated mediation model based on job crafting. South African Journal of Business Management 53:1.
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Sandra A. Bakidamteh, Enoch Teye-Kwadjo & Inusah Abdul-Nasiru. (2022) Understanding the Role of Proactive Personality in Occupational Health and Safety at Oil and Gas Service Stations in Accra. SAGE Open 12:2, pages 215824402210899.
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Erich C. Dierdorff & Robert S. Rubin. (2021) Revisiting Reciprocity: How Accountability, Proactivity, and Interpersonal Skills Shape Obligations to Reciprocate Citizenship Behavior. Journal of Business and Psychology 37:2, pages 263-281.
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Roksana Binte Rezwan & Yoshi Takahashi. (2021) Retention intention: does having a proactive personality matter?. Personnel Review 51:2, pages 528-542.
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Ulrike Fasbender, Fabiola H. Gerpott & Dana Unger. (2021) Give and take? Knowledge exchange between older and younger employees as a function of generativity and development striving. Journal of Knowledge Management 25:10, pages 2420-2443.
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Fong-Yi Lai, Cheng-Chen Lin, Szu-Chi Lu & Hsiao-Ling Chen. (2021) The Role of Team–Member Exchange in Proactive Personality and Employees’ Proactive Behaviors: The Moderating Effect of Transformational Leadership. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 28:4, pages 429-443.
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Xiao‐Yu Liu, Irene E. De Pater & Remus Ilies. (2021) Turning lemons into lemonade: The role of proactive personality and information exchange in limiting reciprocal negative affect transference in service encounters. Journal of Organizational Behavior 42:9, pages 1282-1300.
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Roshni Das. (2021) Followership practices as determinants of national innovativeness: a study across 56 cultures. Leadership & Organization Development Journal 42:8, pages 1282-1294.
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Tin Doan, Pattamol Kanjanakan, Dan Zhu & Peter B. Kim. (2021) Consequences of employee personality in the hospitality context: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 33:10, pages 3814-3832.
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Saima Ahmad, Talat Islam, Amrik Singh Sohal, Julie Wolfram Cox & Ahmad Kaleem. (2021) Managing bullying in the workplace: a model of servant leadership, employee resilience and proactive personality. Personnel Review 50:7/8, pages 1613-1631.
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Marina Mondo, Barbara Barbieri, Silvia De Simone, Flavia Bonaiuto, Luca Usai & Mirian Agus. (2021) Measuring Career Adaptability in a Sample of Italian University Students: Psychometric Properties and Relations with the Age, Gender, and STEM/No STEM Courses. Social Sciences 10:10, pages 372.
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Albi Alikaj, Wei Ning & Bingqing Wu. (2020) Proactive Personality and Creative Behavior: Examining the Role of Thriving at Work and High-Involvement HR Practices. Journal of Business and Psychology 36:5, pages 857-869.
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Enoch Teye-Kwadjo & Gideon P. de Bruin. (2021) Rasch Analysis of the Proactive Personality Scale. Psychological Reports, pages 003329412110281.
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Solana Salessi & Alicia Omar. (2021) Propiedades Psicométricas de la Versión Argentina de la Escala de Personalidad Proactiva. Psico-USF 26:2, pages 203-214.
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Ruixue Zhang, Anran Li & Yaping Gong. (2020) Too much of a good thing: Examining the curvilinear relationship between team‐level proactive personality and team performance. Personnel Psychology 74:2, pages 295-321.
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Sow Hup Joanne Chan & Kuan‐Thye Chan. (2021) The Indirect Effects of Self‐Esteem and Future Work Self on Career Adaptability Factors: A Study of Chinese Undergraduate Students. Journal of Employment Counseling 58:2, pages 50-73.
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Abdulah Bajaba, Saleh Bajaba, Mohammad Algarni, Abdulrahman Basahal & Sarah Basahel. (2021) Adaptive Managers as Emerging Leaders During the COVID-19 Crisis. Frontiers in Psychology 12.
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Nhung Hendy, Georg Krammer, Julie Aitken Schermer & Michael D. Biderman. (2020) Using bifactor models to identify faking on Big Five questionnaires. International Journal of Selection and Assessment 29:1, pages 81-99.
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Jestine Philip. (2021) A multi-study approach to examine the interplay of proactive personality and political skill in job crafting. Journal of Management & Organization, pages 1-20.
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Saleh Bajaba, Bryan Fuller, Laura Marler & Abdulah Bajaba. (2018) Does mindfulness enhance the beneficial outcomes that accrue to employees with proactive personalities?. Current Psychology 40:2, pages 475-484.
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Fengjiao Zheng, Naseer Abbas Khan & Sabir Hussain. (2020) The COVID 19 pandemic and digital higher education: Exploring the impact of proactive personality on social capital through internet self-efficacy and online interaction quality. Children and Youth Services Review 119, pages 105694.
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Richard P. Douglass, Kelsey L. Autin, Aysenur Buyukgoze-Kavas & Nicholas P. Gensmer. (2019) Proactive Personality and Decent Work Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Working Adults. Journal of Career Assessment 28:3, pages 512-528.
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Zane Asher Green, Uzma Noor & Mohammad Nawaz Hashemi. (2019) Furthering Proactivity and Career Adaptability Among University Students: Test of Intervention. Journal of Career Assessment 28:3, pages 402-424.
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Dieter Vanwalleghem & Agata Mirowska. (2020) The investor that could and would: The effect of proactive personality on sustainable investment choice. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 26, pages 100313.
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Yimin He, M. Brent Donnellan & Anjelica M. Mendoza. (2019) Five-factor personality domains and job performance: A second order meta-analysis. Journal of Research in Personality 82, pages 103848.
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Yue Zhang, J. Michael Crant & Qingxiong (Derek) Weng. (2019) Role stressors and counterproductive work behavior: The role of negative affect and proactive personality. International Journal of Selection and Assessment 27:3, pages 267-279.
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Soojung Han, Crystal M. Harold & Minyoung Cheong. (2019) Examining why employee proactive personality influences empowering leadership: The roles of cognition‐ and affect‐based trust. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 92:2, pages 352-383.
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Nuno Rodrigues & Teresa Rebelo. (2019) Predicting innovative performance through proactive personality: Examining its criterion validity and incremental validity over the five‐factor model. International Journal of Selection and Assessment 27:1, pages 1-8.
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Maria João Velez & Pedro Neves. (2018) Shaping emotional reactions to ethical behaviors: Proactive personality as a substitute for ethical leadership. The Leadership Quarterly 29:6, pages 663-673.
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Sayeedul Islam, Vahe Permzadian, Rownak J. Choudhury, Marla Johnston & Maria Anderson. (2018) Proactive personality and the expanded criterion domain of performance: Predicting academic citizenship and counterproductive behaviors. Learning and Individual Differences 65, pages 41-49.
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Yanjun Guan, Xiang Dai, Qing Gong, Yufan Deng, Yuansi Hou, Zhilin Dong, Luhua Wang, Zheng Huang & Xin Lai. (2017) Understanding the trait basis of career adaptability: A two-wave mediation analysis among Chinese university students. Journal of Vocational Behavior 101, pages 32-42.
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Ellen Giebels, Renee S.M. de Reuver, Sonja Rispens & Elze G. Ufkes. (2016) The Critical Roles of Task Conflict and Job Autonomy in the Relationship Between Proactive Personalities and Innovative Employee Behavior. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 52:3, pages 320-341.
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Marie Malo, Isabelle Tremblay & Luc Brunet. (2016) Cognitive adjustment as an indicator of psychological health at work: Development and validation of a measure. Journal of Vocational Behavior 92, pages 33-43.
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