scholarly journals Proactive Personality as a Predictor of Career Adaptability and Career Growth Potential: A View From Conservation of Resources Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su Wang ◽  
Mei Mei ◽  
Yang Xie ◽  
Yiting Zhao ◽  
Fu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Friend Support ◽  
Career Growth ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Individualized Consideration

In the present study, we offered a new account for the development of career adaptability and the realization of career growth potential based on conservation of resources (COR) theory. Using data collected from 903 university students in China, we examined how and when proactive personality influences students’ career adaptability and career growth potential by introducing emotional exhaustion as a mediator as well as friend support and teacher individualized consideration as boundary conditions. Specifically, the results confirmed a positive effect of proactive personality on career adaptability, with this relationship mediated by emotional exhaustion. In addition, results suggested a positive effect of proactive personality on career growth potential, with this relationship mediated by emotional exhaustion and career adaptability. Moreover, results showed that in-school social support (i.e., friend support and teacher individualized consideration) served as moderators in the relationship between proactive personality and emotional exhaustion, such that the negative effect of proactive personality on emotional exhaustion was strengthened when students received high levels of social support. Theoretical implications of career adaptability research and COR theory and practical implications for promoting adaptability resources and career growth in university are provided.

scholarly journals Investigating the Linkage Between Proactive Personality and Social Support on Career Adaptability Amidst Undergraduate Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Olawole Olanre Fawehinmi ◽  
Khulida Kirana Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Career Adaptability

Purpose: This paper studies the linkage between proactive personality and social support with career adaptability amidst final year undergraduate students at a university in the northern region of Malaysia. Design/Methodology/Approach: 257 questionnaires were distributed but only 188 were received and analysed. Regression analysis was used to determine the linkage relating proactive personality and social support with career adaptability. Findings: Results indicates there is positive relationship and significance relating proactive personality and career adaptability. Likewise, positive relationship and significance exist relating social support and career adaptability. Implications/Originality/Value: Proactive personality and social support are variables which essentially influence career adaptability among students. This result gives implication on how career advisors, lecturers and parents can channel efforts in making fresh graduates highly adaptable in their chosen careers.

Consumed by obsession: Career adaptability resources and the performance consequences of obsessive passion and harmonious passion for work

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 811-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv K Amarnani ◽  
Jennifer Ann L Lajom ◽  
Simon Lloyd D Restubog ◽  
Alessandra Capezio
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Harmonious Passion ◽  
Obsessive Passion ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Time Lagged

Does passion predict performance? Whereas harmonious passion is typically associated with strong performance, evidence for the obsessive passion-performance relationship has been so far inconclusive. The mixed results in the literature suggest that there are hitherto unexamined boundary conditions and mechanisms shaping the relationship between obsessive passion and performance. This study draws on principles from conservation of resources and the dual-systems model of self-regulation to explain how these two types of passion (obsessive and harmonious) relate to work performance. We examined career adaptability as a buffer that determines when and for whom obsessive passion precipitates emotional exhaustion as well as when and for whom emotional exhaustion diminishes work performance. This proposed moderated mediation model was tested in two multisource samples in corporate ( N = 139 employee-supervisor dyads) and healthcare sectors ( N = 156 time-lagged employee-peer dyads) respectively. We observed support for the proposed model in both samples. Career adaptability prevents obsessively passionate workers from being consumed by obsession.

scholarly journals Making the Customer Orientation of Salespeople Unsustainable—The Moderating Effect of Emotional Exhaustion

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifang Shu ◽  
Haiying Wei ◽  
Leiqing Peng
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Adaptive Selling ◽  
Sustainable Operation ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Adaptive Selling Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Customer orientation of salespeople usually leads to a sustainable positive effect on job performance, yet previous research has usually focused on the benefits of functional customer orientation, and less is known about its relational customer orientation’s outcomes. Based on conservation of resources theory, this research focuses on both types of customer orientation, functional and relational customer orientation, and investigates the moderating effect of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between customer orientation and adaptive selling behavior. We collected 282 valid questionnaires from frontline salespeople in China. Results showed that functional/relational customer orientation was positively correlated with salespeople’s adaptive selling behavior. Salespeople’s emotional exhaustion moderates the main effect: when emotional exhaustion is high, the relationship between functional/relational customer orientation and adaptive selling behavior is substantially weakened. This study contributes to a further understanding of the sustainable operation environment for customer orientation, and provides practical implications regarding the attainment of sustainable outcomes of customer orientation.

scholarly journals Unemployment From the Perspective of the Psychology of Working

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 474-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Kossen ◽  
Peter McIlveen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Psychology Of Working ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

Unemployment is a ubiquitous problem that is a complex of cultural, economic interpersonal, physical, and psychological dimensions. Whereas the pernicious negative outcomes of unemployment are empirically established in the literature, there is a need to better understand the psychological experiences of unemployment so as to inform interventions that ameliorate its impact. The present research is based on archival interview data and uses the psychology of working theory to understand 32 individuals’ experiences of unemployment. The findings include themes that are consistent with the hypothesized predictors posited in the theory, including marginalization, economic constraints, volition, career adaptability, proactive personality, critical consciousness, social support, and economic conditions. The research findings affirm the conceptual precepts of the theory with regard to its predictors; thus, this contribution to the literature on the psychology of working and unemployment opens new perspectives on a perennial problem.

Allies or rivals: how abusive supervision influences subordinates’ knowledge hiding from colleagues

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Changyu Wang ◽  
Jiaojiao Feng ◽  
Xinze Li
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
Knowledge Hiding ◽  
Positive Effect

PurposePrevious research suggests that abusive supervision has a positive effect on subordinates’ behaviors of knowledge hiding. However, the authors argue that this effect depends on the level of team abusive supervision differentiation. Drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and social comparison theory, this study tries to explain how the level of team abusive supervision differentiation, in conjunction with individuals' own experiences of abusive supervision, influences the focal subordinate's knowledge hiding from their colleagues.Design/methodology/approachThe paper addresses a sample of 412 employees nested in 73 groups and tests an original model using structural equation modeling.FindingsResults show that abusive supervision would indirectly promote subordinates' knowledge hiding toward coworkers via emotional exhaustion, and team abusive supervision differentiation has a positive moderating effect on the above indirect relationship.Practical implicationsHuman resource management (HRM) practices should be used to reduce abusive supervision both at individual and team level and minimize employees' emotional exhaustion, thereby affecting knowledge hiding from coworkers.Originality/valueResults show that whether a subordinate's experience of abusive supervision leads to knowledge hiding via emotional exhaustion depends on the level of team abusive supervision differentiation. This finding adds to the literature about abusive supervision and knowledge hiding.

Career adaptability and citizenship outcomes: a moderated mediation model

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 658-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Kun Yu
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wave Data ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Drawing upon the career construction theory (Savickas, 2002, 2013) and the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989, 2001), the purpose of this paper is to explore whether, how and when career adaptability influences citizenship outcomes (i.e. citizenship behavior and citizenship fatigue). Design/methodology/approach Two-wave data were collected from 306 employees working in the operation department of an e-commerce company in Eastern China. Findings The results showed that both affective commitment and emotional exhaustion mediated the relationship between career adaptability and both citizenship behavior and citizenship fatigue, revealing a dual-process mechanism. Moreover, both the positive association between career adaptability and affective commitment and the negative association between career adaptability and emotional exhaustion were stronger among employees with a high (vs low) level of hindrance stressors. Research limitations/implications This study sheds light on the mechanisms and boundary conditions of the career adaptabilities–citizenship outcomes relationship. Originality/value This is one of the first studies to investigate the mechanism of the relationship between career adaptability and citizenship outcomes using multi-wave data.

scholarly journals Intrinsieke arbeidsoriëntatie en uitputting bij werknemers

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Van Ruysseveldt ◽  
Peter Smulders
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Work Orientation ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Positive Effect

Intrinsic work orientation and emotional exhaustion Intrinsic work orientation and emotional exhaustion Does an intrinsic work orientation influence the level of work-related strain? To answer this question we developed a research model which incorporates insights from the Job Demands-Resources model, the Vitamin model of Warr and The Conservation of Resources theory of Hobfoll. To test our assumptions we use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Dutch working population (TAS 2002). We find empirical evidence for most of our hypotheses: intrinsic work orientation has a significant negative effect on emotional exhaustion, buffers the positive effect of work load and enhances the negative effect of the job resources on emotional exhaustion. An extrinsic work orientation strengthens the positive effect of work load on emotional exhaustion. In line with our results we conclude that more research is needed on the role personal resources – next to job resources – play in the energetic process.

The Impact of Coping Strategies on Situational Coping in Daily Life: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study with the mHealth application TrackYourStress (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa O'Rourke ◽  
Carsten Vogel ◽  
Dennis John ◽  
Rüdiger Pryss ◽  
Johannes Schobel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Active Stress ◽  
Situational Coping ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

BACKGROUND It is necessary to cope with situations in daily life to prevent stress-related health consequences. However, coping strategies might differ in their impact on dealing with stressful situations in daily life. Moreover, the effect of coping strategies on situational coping might differ between women and men. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of coping strategies on situational coping in everyday life situations and to investigate gender differences. METHODS An ecological momentary assessment study with the mobile health app TrackYourStress (TYS) was conducted with 113 participants. Coping strategies were measured at baseline with the coping scales Positive Thinking, Active Stress Coping, Social Support, Support in Faith, and Alcohol and Cigarette Consumption of the Stress and Coping Inventory (SCI). Situational coping was assessed by the question “How well can you cope with your momentary stress-level” (slider 0-100) in daily life over four weeks. Multilevel models were conducted to test the effects of the coping strategies on situational coping. Additionally, gender differences were evaluated. RESULTS Positive Thinking (P=.03) and Active Stress Coping (P=.04) had significant positive impacts on situational coping in the total sample. For women, only Social Support had a significant positive effect on situational coping (P=.046). For men, only Active Stress Coping had a significant positive effect on situational coping (P=.001). Women had higher scores on the SCI scale Social Support than men (P=.007). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that different coping strategies could be more effective in daily life for women than for men, which should be considered in the development of interventions aimed at reducing stress consequences through coping. Interventions taking gender into consideration might lead to better coping-outcomes than generalized interventions.

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