title: Psychometric properties of the Chinese translation of the proactive personality scale.
abstract: The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese translation of the Proactive Personality Scale. Four samples were surveyed. In Sample 1 and Sample 2, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis results confirmed the unidimensional structure of the 10-item abbreviated version of the scale. In Sample 2, Proactive Personality scores were found to be positively correlated with the personality factors of Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Openness, and Agreeableness, and negatively correlated with Neuroticism. In Sample 3, Proactive Personality was found to be positively related to self-efficacy and political skill. In Sample 4, demographics controlled, Proactive Personality explained significant incremental variance in the employees' self-rated career satisfaction and job performance as rated by immediate supervisors.
authors.affiliation: Peking University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Le
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Junqi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004526:Efficiency; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011057:Politics; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations