Do you feel like being proactive today? Trait-proactivity moderates affective causes and consequences of proactive behavior.

ABSTRACT: Proactive people take initiative when others do not and persist in improving their environment or themselves. Although scholars assume that how we feel influences how proactive we are, there is no experimental research yet to support this. This experiment therefore tests whether positive and negative affect influence proactive behavior and additionally investigates whether engaging in proactivity also has affective consequences. While current theory proposes that positive affect enhances proactive behavior by stimulating broad-flexible thinking, we argue that negative affect should make people proactive through stimulating systematic-persistent thinking. Furthermore, we propose that proactive behavior increases subsequent positive affect rather than positive affect increasing proactive beh

SUBMITTER: Wolsink I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692000 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature