Query: The Proactive Personality Scale

title: Study on the influence of proactive personality and professional values on career resilience of specialist nurses in operating room
abstract: To examine the level of proactive personality, professional values and career resilience of specialist nurses in operating rooms and to explore the influence of proactive personality and professional values on career resilience, in order to provide theoretical reference for clinical nursing managers to explore the professional characteristics of specialist nurses in operating room and improve their level of career resilience.  The general data questionnaire, Proactive Personality Scale, Nurses Professional Values Scale Revised and Career Resilience Scale were used to select the specialist nurses in operating room who participated in the specialist nurses of operating room training course of the Chinese Nursing Association and Beijing Nursing Association in 2018. Data were distributed and collected through Wenjuanxing software and analyzed by SPSS 17.0. Multiple linear regression method was used to analyze the influencing factors of career resilience.  The average age of the 169 specialist nurses of operating room was (33.00+ 4.23) years old, the proactive personality score was (43.55+ 5.53) points, the occupational values score was (103.50+ 14.20) points, and the career resilience score was (41.12+ 4.78) points. As shown by multiple linear regression results, "Years of nursing care in the operating room" "initial education" "proactive personality" "professional values" were the factors that affected the career resilience of specialist nurses in the operating room.  Both proactive personality and professional values of specialist nurses in operating rooms have a positive effect on career resilience. The nursing manager of operating room can fully explore the characteristics of the proactive personality of specialist nurses in operating room, help them cultivate positive and scientific professional values, improve their career resilience level.  Operation Room; Specialist nurses; Proactive personality; Professional values; Career resilience

title: Effects of Proactive Personality and Social Centrality on Learning Performance in SPOCs
abstract: Due to the adaptability and manageability in small scale class teaching, Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) have become a highly important learning apparatus in higher education. However, what psychological and social factors affect learning outcomes in SPOCs remains to be explored. This study aims to investigate the effects of proactive personality and social centrality on learning performance in the SPOCs context. On the one hand, we examine the independent effects of proactive personality and social centrality respectively. On the other hand, the combined effect of them is studied to gain a comprehensive understanding of the roles of psychological and social factors in students' SPOCs learning process. Results from correlation analyses indicate that proactive personality and social centralities are significantly correlated with learning performance. Further regression and ANOVA analyses demonstrate the applicability of the two models of indirection and interaction effects respectively.

title: The mediating effect of proactive personality on the relationship between achievement motivation and career adaptability in nursing undergraduates
abstract: To explore the mediating effect of proactive personality of nursing undergraduates between achievement motivation (pursuing success and avoiding failure) and career adaptability, so as to provide a direction for the adjustment of career adaptability of nursing undergraduates.  A total of 240 nursing undergraduates from Grade 2016 and 2017 of China Medical University were recruited as the research subjects by convenience sampling method. University Students' Career Adaptability Questionnaire, Achievement Motivation Scale and Active Personality Questionnaire were applied in the investigation.  A total of 165 out of 240 valid questionnaires were collected. The score of pursuit of success was (36.24+ 9.02) Active Personality Questionnaire (3.50+ 0.70) and University Students' Career Adaptability Questionnaire (3.66+ 0.51) Career adaptability was positively correlated with proactive personality (r=0.518, P=0.001) and avoidance of failure (r=0.194, P=0.013) and negatively correlated with pursuit of success (r= 0.157, P=0.044) Proactive personality was positively correlated with avoidance of failure (r=0.260, P=0.01) Fitting values are obtained by constructing and modifying models: NFI=0.915, GFI=0.904, CFI=0.964, AGFI=O.858, RMESA=0.064. The direct effect of avoiding failure on career adaptability was 0.07, the indirect effect through active personality was 0.24, and the intermediary effect accounted for 77.4% of the total effect.  Active personality plays a mediating role in avoiding failure motivation and career adaptability, correctly guiding the development direction of achievement motivation, improving the level of avoiding failure and proactive personality, which is conducive to the positive development of career adaptability of nursing undergraduates.  Students, nursing; Achievement motivation; Career adaptability; Proactive personality

title: Proactive personality and innovative behavior: The mediating roles of job related affect and work engagement
abstract: We examined the potential effects of job related affect and work engagement as mediators in the relationship between proactive personality and innovative behavior. The Proactive Personality Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Work Engagement Scale, and Innovative Behavior Scale were completed by 320 primary and middle school teachers in western China. Results showed that proactive personality was significantly and positively related to the teachers' innovative behavior. The effect of proactive personality on innovative behavior was partly mediated by both positive affect and work engagement in simple mediator roles, and by the sequential mediating effects of positive affect and work engagement. Possible explanations are discussed in light of previous findings. Limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.

title: Investigation of Proactive Personality Characteristics of the Students of High School of Physical Education and Sports through Various Variables.
abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine the personality characteristics of the students who study at the High School of Physical Education and Sports and to determine the differences between the personalities according to the demographic characteristics of them. The "Proactive Personality Scale" was used for collecting research data. Independent t test was used for two groups and the one way analysis of variance for more than two groups in the comparison of the subjects' opinions, in terms of the proactive personality traits, according to their individual characteristics. As a conclusion, though there were no statistically significant difference between gender, number of siblings, environment they lived in, sports branches, education level of mother, education level of father, and income levels of the students participated in the survey (p>0,05) significant difference was detected in terms of sporting status, sport ages, achievement levels, and family income levels of (p

title: The Impact of Proactive Personality on Job Performance through Job Crafting: The Case of Vietcombank in Ho Chi Minh City
abstract: This study was conducted to measure the impact of the proactive personality to job job performance through job crafting of employees at Vietcombank in Ho Chi Minh City. The study conducted a survey of 182 employees at Vietcombank transaction offices in Ho Chi Minh City. Research data was analyzed by techniques: descriptive statistics, scale reliability, EFA, CFA, and SEM. The results of the factor analysis show that the proactive personality scale consists of one component; the job crafting scale consists of three components: increasing structural job resources, increasing social job resources and increasing challenging job requirement; the job performance scale consists of one component. The results of the SEM analysis showed that the proactive personality and job crafting had a positive impact on the job performance of employees. From the results of the analysis, the study suggests some solutions that need to be focused on to motivate the proactive personality and the job crafting in order to improve the job performance of the employees at Vietcombank in Ho Chi Minh City.

title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESERVICE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS' ACADEMIC SELF EFFICACY AND PROACTIVE PERSONALITY
abstract: Teachers today can influence their environment and events through their behavior, therefore, each teacher's teaching style has an impact on students' academic achievement. The effective design of learning environments and systematic guidance of students depend on teachers' efficacy and personality traits. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between preservice physical education teachers' self efficacy and proactive personality traits. Study group consists of 386 physical education students (122 women and 264 men) of four universities in the spring semester of 2015/2016. Data were collected using a Personal Information Form developed by the researcher, an Academic Self Efficacy Scale (ASES) and a short version of the Proactive Personality Scale (SPPS) Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical methods, t test, OneWay ANOVA and Tukey multiple comparison test. Participants reported moderate levels of self efficacy and low levels of proactive personality. Male participants had significantly lower social status scale scores than female participants. An interesting result was that self efficacy decreased with age. Fourth grade students' academic self efficacy and sub scale scores were statistically lower than those of first secondand thirdgrade students. Sports engagement were found to have no effect on participants' academic self efficacy and proactive personality. Another interesting result was that participants' academic self efficacy decreased along with an increase in grade point average (GPA) scores. Participants' proactive personality scores decreased with an increase in their academic self efficacy scores. Future studies are warranted to assess the correlation of academic self efficacy and proactive personality with different variables.

title: The effect of demographic variables on the university's proactive personality and uncertainty avoidance
abstract: The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the demographic variables of the students studying in Kocaeli Vocational School of Business Administration program and their tendency to avoid uncertainty. In this study, the cultural dimensions scale of Hofstede used by Altay (2004) was used to measure the tendency to avoid uncertainty. In this study, the Proactive personality scale of Bateman and Crant used by Akgunduz et al. (2017) was used to measure the tendency to proactive personality. In addition, questions were asked about the demographic variables (gender, mother is or not life, the status of the parents, the income level, the educational status of the parents, number of siblings and success status) The sampling method was used easily in the study. The sample of the study consisted of 154 students. The data were analyzed by SPSS program. The significance level was accepted as 0.05. It was seen that demographic variables of university students had no effect on proactive personality and avoidance of uncertainty.  Proactive personality, Uncertainty avoidance, Demographic variables.

title: Toward a Tripartite Model and Measurement of Proactive Personality
abstract: Although proactive personality (Bateman Crant, 1993) as a relatively stable disposition to bring about change in one's environment, is a central construct in the management and organizational behavior literature, questions have arisen about its definition and structure. To answer these questions, we present a tripartite model of proactive personality consisting of 3 dimensions: perception (i.e. perceiving opportunities for change) implementation (i.e. planning and executing change) and perseverance (i.e. persisting until the change is realized) Exploratory factor analysis informed the construction of a 14 item scale, and confirmatory factor analyses supported the validity of the scale. The new scale demonstrated satisfactory reliability and accounted for significant variance in task performance above that of original proactive personality, personal initiative, conscientiousness, and social desirability. Tripartite proactive personality might provide a more nuanced view of dispositional proactivity and greater predictive power than the original unidimensional proactive personality.

title: Proactive Personality and Job Satisfaction: the Mediating Effects of Self Efficacy and Work Engagement in Teachers
abstract: Proactive personality has been demonstrated to be positively correlated with individual's job satisfaction in addition to big five traits. However, what is less clear are the intervening mechanisms underlying this relationship, the present study examined the mediating effects of self efficacy and work engagement on the association between proactive personality and job satisfaction. Three hundred and fifty two (194 females and 158 males) primary and middle school teachers completed the proactive personality scale, the teachers' self efficacy scale, the work engagement scale and the short form Minnesota job satisfaction questionnaire. Results revealed that proactive personality was positively related to teachers' job satisfaction. In addition, mediation analyses showed that the relation between proactive personality and teachers' job satisfaction was simple mediated by self efficacy and work engagement and sequentially mediated by self efficacy work engagement. These findings contribute to the complex nature of the relationship between proactive personality and job satisfaction. The possible explanations and limitations are briefly discussed.