Proactive Personality and Job Satisfaction: the Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy and Work Engagement in Teachers

Current Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 48-55

  Li, Mingjun ^a,b   Wang, Zhenhong ^a   Gao, Jie ^b   You, Xuqun ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shaanxi XueQian Normal University ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Proactive personality; Self efficacy; Work engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944706388     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-015-9383-1     Document Type: Article

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