Wen-Dong Li

Reciprocal relationship between proactive personality and work characteristics: A latent change score approach

Previous proactivity research has predominantly assumed that proactive personality generates positive environmental changes in the workplace. Grounded in recent research on personality development from a broad interactionist theoretical approach, the present article investigates whether work characteristics, including job demands, job control, social support from supervisors and coworkers, and organizational constraints, change proactive personality over time and, more important, reciprocal relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics. Latent change score analyses based on longitudinal data collected in 3 waves across 3 years show that job demands and job control have positive lagged effects on increases in proactive personality. In addition, proactive personality exerts beneficial lagged effects on increases in job demands, job control, and supervisory support, and on decreases in organizational constraints. Dynamic reciprocal relationships are observed between proactive personality with job demands and job control. The revealed corresponsive change relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics contribute to the proactive personality literature by illuminating more nuanced interplays between the agentic person and work characteristics, and also have important practical implications for organizations and employees.

Income, personality, and subjective financial well-being: The role of gender in their genetic and environmental relationships

Increasing levels of financial inequality prompt questions about the relationship between income and well-being. Using a twins sample from the Survey of Midlife Development in the U. S. and controlling for personality as core self-evaluations (CSE), we found that men, but not women, had higher subjective financial well-being (SFWB) when they had higher incomes. This relationship was due to ‘unshared environmental’ factors rather than genes, suggesting that the effect of income on SFWB is driven by unique experiences among men. Further, for women and men, we found that CSE influenced income and SFWB, and that both genetic and environmental factors explained this relationship. Given the relatively small and male-specific relationship between income and SFWB, and the determination of both income and SFWB by personality, we propose that policy makers focus on malleable factors beyond merely income in order to increase SFWB, including financial education and building self-regulatory capacity.

Rationality of 17 cities' public perception of SARS and predictive model of psychological behavior

This study investigated the feature of Chinese peoples’ perception of SARS by surveying a stratified sample of 4231 people from 17 cities in China, and primarily proposed a risk perception centered predictive model of psychological behavior in crisis. The results indicated that, negative SARS-related information, especially information of personal interest, will arouse people’s risk perception of high level, and lead to irrational nervousness or scare; but positive SARS-related information, including recovery information and that with measures taken by government, can decrease the level of risk perception. In the middle of May, people felt the highest level of risk on the SARS pathogens; the following are the physical health condition and infectivity after recovering from SARS; they are factors that need special attention. SEM result analyses supported our hypotheses in that SARS-related information affect people’s coping behavior and mental health through their risk perception, the four indices of risk assessment, feeling of nervousness, coping behavior and mental health are effective presentimental indices for public psychological behavior in risky events.

Toward a Social Interaction View of Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Current research on OCB has not paid sufficient attention to mutual exchange processes between actors and recipients. This symposium brings together five papers that shed light on how actors and recipients interact to exchange feedback and create favorable social environments in which OCB can thrive. Benefits of Receiving Gratitude for Helpers: Daily Investigation of Proactive and Reactive Helping Presenter: Hun Whee Lee; Michigan State U. Presenter: Jacob Cline Bradburn; Michigan State U. Presenter: Russell Eric Johnson; Michigan State U. Presenter: Chu-Hsiang Chang; Michigan State U. Help Not Wanted: The Role of Social-Loafing Concerns in Help Acceptance Presenter: Andrea L. Hetrick; U. of Georgia Presenter: Brian James Hoffman; U. of Georgia Say It as It Is: Key Determinants of Voice Endorsement Presenter: Chak Fu Lam; Suffolk U. Presenter: Cynthia K Lee; Northeastern U. Presenter: Yang Sui; U. of Science and Technology Beijing A Social Identity Perspective on Shared Leadership and Team OCB Presenter: ...

Is Abuse Always Bad? A Latent Change Score Approach to Examine Consequences of Abusive Supervision

While extant studies have well demonstrated the detrimental consequences of abusive supervision, researchers recently have proposed the strategic influence perspective on abusive supervision, sugge...