Proactive Personality and Innovative Work Behavior: the Mediating Effects of Affective States and Creative Self-Efficacy in Teachers

Current Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 697-706

  Li, Mingjun ^a,b   Liu, Ya ^c   Liu, Lu ^a   Wang, Zhenhong ^b  

^a Shaanxi XueQian Normal University ^*  (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Creative self efficacy; Innovative work behavior; Negative affect; Positive affect; Proactive personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973162076     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-016-9457-8     Document Type: Article

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