Although a large majority of literature has shown the importance of core self-evaluation (CSE) for employees’ attitudes, behaviors and performance, little is known about the relationship between CSE ...and strengths use. Therefore, the current study was to address this gap by proposing a sequential mediation model. Specifically, this paper attempted to investigate the CSE-strengths use relationship and to explore the mediating mechanisms of emotional intelligence (EI) and positive affect (PA) on the relationship. Three-wave survey data with a sample of 157 employees working in various Chinese enterprises were utilized to examine our hypotheses. The findings of this study indicated that CSE had a positive effect on strengths use. Moreover, EI and PA, individually, mediated the relationship between CSE and strengths use. More importantly, CSE could also influence strengths use through the two sequential mediators of EI and PA.
Research on protean and boundaryless career orientations has explored their consequences for individuals and organizations while largely ignoring their key antecedents. Our paper address this ...omission by exploring three potential antecedents of contemporary careers - core self-evaluations (CSEs), social capital and perceived employability. Findings from a longitudinal study of university students transitioning into the labour market support the role of these constructs as antecedents of both career orientations. An exception is the negative direct effect of CSEs on boundaryless career orientations; but there are positive indirect effects via perceived employability. Our paper offers one of the first longitudinal studies identifying and empirically exploring the role of antecedents of protean and boundaryless career orientations. It also contributes to establishing the conceptual and empirical distinctions between the two orientations.
•Explores core antecedents of protean and boundaryless career orientations•Core self-evaluations are negatively associated with BCO.•Employability and social capital mediate the link between CSE and BCO.•Employability mediates the link between CSE and PCO.•Employability and social capital are associated with BCO and PCO.
Trusting and feeling trusted are related but unique components of a trusting relationship. However, we understand relatively little about the effects of felt trust on work performance and ...organizational citizenship behavior. From a self-evaluative perspective, this study argued that when employees perceive that their supervisors trust them, their organization-based self-esteem is enhanced, leading them to perform better in the workplace. We tested our hypotheses on a sample of 497 teachers using two trust measures, that is, reliance and disclosure, and found support for them on the basis of the reliance (but not the disclosure) measure. The effect of felt trust especially reliance on the employees’ work performances were mediated by their organization- based self-esteem.
Previous studies have already linked individual differences to job performance and health outcomes separately, yet researchers are still to investigate parsimonious configurations for the ...associations of these outcomes concomitantly. Furthermore, variables which mediate these relationships have rarely been investigated. Our study proposes a model of personality characteristics (i.e., proactive personality, core self-evaluation, and psychological capital) which can directly predict work engagement, and indirectly, employees' job performance and their mental health. We collected data from a sample of Romanian workers (N = 365) and tested our model via structural equation modeling. The results provide partial support for our hypotheses. Personality characteristics show an association to work engagement, which in turn predicts employees' performance and mental health. However, core self-evaluations and psychological capital also showed a direct link to the measured outcomes. Our findings provide support for current organizational practices, where fixed traits are used as selection criteria, while malleable states are then developed through interventions to improve employee's performance and health.
Although much has been attributed to a CEO's personality, one particularly intriguing, and as yet unexplored, investigation is its impact on the firm's entrepreneurial orientation. Additionally, ...despite calls from the upper-echelon literature, CEO personality research has been hobbled by the absence of a unifying construct that captures core dimensions of personality, and by the difficulty in obtaining such intimate assessments from executives. Building on recent advances in personality research, in particular the identification and validation of the core self-evaluation construct that captures the core facets of an executive's sense of self-potency, we develop and test a model of the impact of CEO core self-evaluation on entrepreneurial orientation. Then, consistent with upper echelons and personality theory, we specify the contingent role of environmental dynamism. Using multisource data from a sample of CEOs and their top management teams from 129 firms, including a time-lagged assessment of the firm's entrepreneurial orientation, we find evidence to suggest that CEOs whose personalities reflect higher core self-evaluations have a stronger positive influence on their firms' entrepreneurial orientation. In addition, we find that this influence is particularly strong in firms facing dynamic environments, but negligible in stable environments.
In 2 studies, the authors investigated whether core self-evaluations (CSE) serve as an integrative framework for understanding individual differences in coping processes. A meta-analytic review ...demonstrated that CSEs were associated with fewer perceived stressors, lower strain, less avoidance coping, more problem-solving coping, and were not strongly related to emotion-focused coping. Consistent with the meta-analytic results, a daily diary study demonstrated that individuals with high CSE perceived fewer stressors, experienced less strain after controlling for stressors, and engaged in less avoidance coping. However, both studies demonstrated that emotional stability was uniquely related to the stress and coping process and that emotional stability moderated the relationship between stressors and strain. The discussion focuses on the distinction between depressive self-concept represented by CSE and the anxiety and worry represented by emotional stability.
We examined the relation between low self-esteem and depression using longitudinal data from a sample of 674 Mexican-origin early adolescents who were assessed at age 10 and 12 years. Results ...supported the vulnerability model, which states that low self-esteem is a prospective risk factor for depression. Moreover, results suggested that the vulnerability effect of low self-esteem is driven, for the most part, by general evaluations of worth (i.e., global self-esteem), rather than by domain-specific evaluations of academic competence, physical appearance, and competence in peer relationships. The only domain-specific self-evaluation that showed a prospective effect on depression was honesty-trustworthiness. The vulnerability effect of low self-esteem held for male and female adolescents, for adolescents born in the United States versus Mexico, and across different levels of pubertal status. Finally, the vulnerability effect held when we controlled for several theoretically relevant 3rd variables (i.e., social support, maternal depression, stressful events, and relational victimization) and for interactive effects between self-esteem and the 3rd variables. The present study contributes to an emerging understanding of the link between self-esteem and depression and provides much needed data on the antecedents of depression in ethnic minority populations.
Single-item athlete self-report measures consist of a single question to assess a dimension of wellbeing. These methods are recommended and frequently used for athlete monitoring, yet their ...uniformity has not been well assessed, and we have a limited understanding of their relationship with measures of training load.
To investigate the applications and designs of single-item self-report measures used in monitoring team-sport athletes and present the relationship between these measures and measures of training load.
PubMed, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus were searched between inception and March 2019.
Articles were included if they concerned adult athletes from field- or court-sport domains, if athlete well-being was measured using a single-item self-report, and if the relationship with a measure of modifiable training load was investigated over at least 7 days.
Data related to participant characteristics, self-report measures, training load measures, and statistical analysis and outcomes were extracted by 2 authors (C.D. and C.D.).
A total of 21 studies were included in the analysis. A narrative synthesis was conducted. The measures used most frequently were muscle soreness, fatigue, sleep quality, stress, and mood. All measures presented various relationships with metrics of training load from no association to a very large association, and the associations were predominantly trivial to moderate in the studies with the largest numbers of observations. Relationships were largely negative associations.
The implications of this review should be considered by users in the application and clinical utility of single-item self-report measures in athlete monitoring. Great emphasis has been placed on examining the relationship between subjective and objective measures of training load. Although the relationship is still unclear, such an association may not be expected or useful. Researchers should consider the measurement properties of single-item self-report measures and seek to establish their relationship with clinically meaningful outcomes. As such, further study is required to inform practitioners on the appropriate objective application of data from single-item self-report measures.
Previous behavior‐analytic research to improve dance performance has separately demonstrated the efficacy of TAGteach and self‐evaluative video feedback. However, no research has directly compared ...these two interventions. In this study, we used an adapted alternating‐treatment design to examine the effects of TAGteach versus self‐evaluative video feedback to improve the accuracy of dance movements among four beginner‐level dance students. All participants performed better on movements that were taught using TAGteach compared with those that were taught using video self‐evaluation. However, conclusions about the superiority of TAGteach should be tempered until further research on this topic is conducted.
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