Proactive personality and cross-cultural adjustment: Roles of social media usage and cultural intelligence

DOI码：

10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.10.002

发表刊物：

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

项目来源：

BBA190020

关键字：

Cross-cultural adjustment, Cultural intelligence, Proactive personality, Social media usage

摘要：

Proactive personality has been theoretically defined as a natural disposition that determines the manner in which an individual responds to social environmental changes. However, in crosscultural context, knowledge about the role of proactive personality and its boundary conditions in expatriate cross-cultural adjustment remains limited. To address the gaps, this study aims to investigate whether and how proactive personality accounts for variance phenomena in expatriate cross-cultural adjustment with intervention of boundary conditions. A survey was conducted in three public universities in China, and 247 informative responses were obtained for hypothesis testing analysis. Results reveal that proactive personality contributes to expatriate cross-cultural adjustment. This contribution occurs through the conduit of cultural intelligence (CQ). CQ partially mediates the relationship between proactive personality and academic adjustment but fully mediates that between proactive personality and social adjustment. Moreover, social media usage for gathering information negatively influences the relationship between proactive personality and CQ. Implications and future research directions are discussed as well.

备注：

"We would like to acknowledge professor Saba Safdar and three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this article. This work was supported by 2019’ National Education Sciences Planning Project of China (BBA190019)."

合写作者：

Hu, Shangui*, Liu, Hefu, Zhang, Shuqin, & Wang, Guoyin.

学科门类：

管理学

文献类型：

J

卷号：

74

页面范围：

42-57

ISSN号：

0147-1767

是否译文：

否

发表时间：

2020-01-01

发布期刊链接：

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.10.002