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- Debra A Major, Jonathan E Turner, and Thomas D Fletcher.
- Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA. dmajor@odu.edu
- J Appl Psychol. 2006 Jul 1; 91 (4): 927-35.
AbstractThe authors investigated links between the Big Five, proactive personality, and motivation to learn. Web-based survey data were collected at 2 points in time from 183 employees of a financial services firm. Results showed that proactive personality was, only in part, a composite of Big Five facets, which accounted for 26% of its variance. Structural equation modeling results demonstrated that proactive personality, openness, extraversion, and conscientiousness predicted motivation to learn. In addition, motivation to learn was positively related to objectively assessed development activity. Proactive personality, extraversion, and openness had significant indirect links to development activity. Hierarchical regression results suggested that proactive personality had significant incremental validity in the prediction of motivation to learn over all relevant Big Five facets.((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
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