Linking Proactive Personality and the Big Five to Motivation to Learn and Development Activity
Key Takeaways:
People with proactive personality are relatively unconstrained by situational forces, tend to set high standards, and harness all available resources into achieving those standards
Proactive personality captures the willingness and determination to pursue a course of action, characteristics that are central to models of self-development
Proactive personality has been linked to objective and subjective indicators of career success [...]
Proactive personality was positively related to innovation, political knowledge, and career initiative, all of which, in turn, had positive relationships with career progression and career satisfaction
Research has shown consistent positive relationships between proactive personality and two Big Five factors: Conscientiousness and Extraversion
In one study, proactive personality was also positively correlated with openness and negatively correlated with neuroticism
Proactive personality also had a significant indirect effect on development activity. Motivation to learn was positively related to development activity