Proactive Personality and Creative Performance: Mediating Roles of Creative Self-Efficacy and Moderated Mediation Role of Psychological Safety

Abstract

Previous research has suggested that employees’ proactive personality can enhance their creative performance. However, studies that address the underlying mechanism of the effect of proactive personality on creative performance have been scarce. Additionally, contextual factors that could serve as useful conditions have received insufficient academic attention. Therefore, the present study proposed that creative self-efficacy serves as a mediator and psychological safety serves as a moderator in the positive relationship between employees’ proactive personality and their creative performance. The results of a large-scale survey revealed that a proactive personality was positively associated with creative performance. Furthermore, we found that the positive relationship between a proactive personality and creative performance was positively mediated by creative self-efficacy and further strengthened by psychological safety. Additionally, we found that psychological safety influenced the mediating role of creative self-efficacy in the link between employees’ proactive personality and creative performance. We have discussed theoretical and practical implications with future research directions.

The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship between Approach Motivational System and Sports Success among Elite Speed Skating Athletes and Physical Education Students

“…A mediating role of self-efficacy on the relationship between BAS and sports success was fully confirmed in this study, consistent with hypothesis H4 and a previous study [ 2 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ]. According to the RST [ 32 , 33 , 34 ], an approach and avoidance motivated behavior results from the interaction between neuropsychological personality traits and motivational stimuli that possess a specific value (more or less attractive).…”

“…Self-efficacy was found as a mediator in the relationships between the Big-Five personality traits and academic performance [ 50 , 51 ] and between a proactive personality and creative performance [ 52 ] and between goal setting and performance in the context of human resource management [ 53 ]. Furthermore, Sherman et al [ 49 ] found the mediating effect of flossing self-efficacy on the relationship between BIS/BAS motivational system, flossing intention, and health-related flossing behavior.…”

“…Self-efficacy will play a mediating role in the relationship between BAS and predisposition to sports success, taking into account previously established associations between these variables [ 2 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 ] and research on the mediating role of self-efficacy in the fields of academic achievement, management, and healthy behavior [ 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ].…”

Relationships between proactive personality and creativity: Mindsets and golden mean thinking as parallel mediators among Chinese third language students

“…According to the correlational analysis in Table 1, there was a positive correlation between proactive personality and creativity, which is consistent with the findings of Mediation model linking proactive personality and creativity through growth mindset, fixed mindset and golden mean thinking. previous research (Zhao and Gao, 2014;Kong and Li, 2018;Choi et al, 2021). When acquiring the third language, L3 learners are always curious about and interested in diverse cultures all over the world.…”

The Relationship Between Leadership Safety Commitment and Resilience Safety Participation Behavior

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