TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - The dark and the bright sides of proactive work behaviour and situational constraints: Longitudinal relationships with task conflicts JO - European journal of work and organizational psychology A1 - Spychala, Anne A1 - Sonnentag, Sabine SP - 654 EP - 680 VL - 20 IS - 5 N2 - We investigated relationships of a job stressor (situational constraints) and specific proactive behaviours with change in task conflicts over time. We introduced two distinct types of proactive work behaviour (promotion-oriented initiative and prevention-oriented initiative) and examined their positive but also negative relationships with change in task conflicts. Study 1 supported the construct validity of promotion-oriented initiative and prevention-oriented initiative for 363 student assistants: Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that both types of proactive behaviour were distinct constructs and also distinct from active coping; patterns of correlations were similar to those of a prior concept of proactive behaviour. Study 2 was a longitudinal online survey with 197 employees over 3 weeks. Consistent with our hypotheses, situational constraints and promotion-oriented initiative predicted an increase in task conflicts, whereas prevention-oriented initiative predicted a decrease in task conflicts.

LA - SN - 1359-432X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2010.487646 ID - ref1 ER -