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Making things happen: Reciprocal relationships between work characteristics and personal initiative in a four-wave longitudinal structural equation model.
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The authors used the frameworks of reciprocal determinism and occupational socialization to study the effects of work characteristics (consisting of control and complexity of work) on personal initiative (PI)--mediated by control orientation (a 2nd-order factor consisting of control aspiration, perceived opportunity for control, and self-efficacy) and the reciprocal effects of PI on changes in work characteristics. They applied structural equation modeling to a longitudinal study with 4 measurement waves (N = 268) in a transitional economy: East Germany. Results confirm the model plus 1 additional, nonhypothesized effect. Work characteristics had a synchronous effect on PI via control orientation (full mediation). There were also effects of control orientation and of PI on later changes in work characteristics: As predicted, PI functioned as partial mediator, changing work characteristics in the long term (reciprocal effect); unexpectedly, there was a 2nd reciprocal effect of an additional lagged partial mediation of control orientation on later work characteristics.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Frese, M., Garst, H., & Fay, D.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1084-1102
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2126760424
- Cited by
- 469
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 41.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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