Brown Douglas J, Cober Richard T, Kane Kevin, Levy Paul E, Shalhoop Jarrett
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
J Appl Psychol. 2006 May;91(3):717-26. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.3.717.
The current article tests a model of proactive personality and job search success with a sample of 180 graduating college students. Using structural equation modeling, the authors tested a theoretical model that specified the relations among proactive personality, job search self-efficacy, job search behaviors, job search effort, and job search outcomes. Job seekers were surveyed at 2 separate points in time, once 3-4 months prior to graduation and once 2-3 months following graduation. The results suggest that proactive personality (a) significantly influenced the success of college graduates' job search, (b) was partially mediated through job search self-efficacy and job search behavior, and (c) was independent of self-esteem and conscientiousness. The findings are discussed in terms of their general implications for understanding the nature of the process through which distal personality factors, such as proactive personality, affect the nature and success of an individual's job search.
本文以180名即将毕业的大学生为样本，对主动型人格与求职成功的模型进行了测试。作者运用结构方程模型，对一个理论模型进行了测试，该模型明确了主动型人格、求职自我效能感、求职行为、求职努力和求职结果之间的关系。研究人员在两个不同的时间点对求职者进行了调查，一次是在毕业前3 - 4个月，另一次是在毕业后2 - 3个月。结果表明，主动型人格（a）显著影响了大学毕业生求职的成功；（b）通过求职自我效能感和求职行为得到部分中介作用；（c）独立于自尊和尽责性。研究结果从其对理解诸如主动型人格等远端人格因素影响个体求职的性质和成功的过程本质的一般意义方面进行了讨论。
