Article
Proactive Personality as a Double-Edged Sword: The Mediating Role of Work–Family Conflict on Employee Outcomes
Journal of Career Development
(2020)
Abstract
In this study, we examine the effects of proactive personality on employees’ perceptions of conflict in the work and family domains and work-related outcomes. We test our hypotheses using survey data collected from 1,150 employees. Our results indicate that proactive personality is associated with increased work-interference-in-family (WIF) but decreased family-interference-in-work (FIW). These opposing, domain-specific effects have masked hitherto hidden relationships that we highlight in this study. Using structural equation modeling, we demonstrate that WIF and FIW function as simultaneous mediating variables between proactive personality and turnover intentions as well as between proactive personality and job performance. Through an investigation of underlying mechanisms, this study advances a more nuanced portrait of how individual differences shape individual and organizational outcomes. © Curators of the University of Missouri 2020.
Keywords
- proactive personality,
- work-interference-in-family,
- family-interference-in-work,
- turnover intentions,
- job performance
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 17, 2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845319899984
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Citation Information
Thomas G. Altura, Alaka Rao and Meghna Virick. "Proactive Personality as a Double-Edged Sword: The Mediating Role of Work–Family Conflict on Employee Outcomes" Journal of Career Development (2020) ISSN: 08948453 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/meghna_virick/46/