Open AccessProactive Personality and Cross-Cultural Adjustment
Author(s) -
Jing Hua,
Guilin Zhang,
Charles Coco,
Teng Zhao,
Ning Hou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of international students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.47
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2166-3750
pISSN - 2162-3104
DOI - 10.32674/jis.v10i4.1274
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , sample (material) , cross cultural , social cognitive theory , self efficacy , big five personality traits , sociology , chemistry , chromatography , artificial intelligence , computer science , anthropology
Combining proactive literature, the social learning/cognitive theory, and cross-cultural adjustment literature, we examined the sojourners’ experience from a positive perspective. Using a three-wave prospective design and a sample of 135 international students, we found that proactive personality was positively related to adjustment self-efficacy, which in turn positively related to academic and social adjustment. Meanwhile, adjustment self-efficacy mediated the link between proactive personality and adjustment. Implications, limitations, and future research are discussed.