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Proactive Personality Scale.

PPS

What it measures
Proactive personality - dispositional tendency to identify opportunities, show initiative, take action and persevere to change one's environment (unidimensional).
Length and format
17 (original); 10-item and 6-item short forms widely used. 7-point Likert (agree-disagree) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many languages incl. ES, IT, ZH, FR, DE, NL, PT (validated adaptations).
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Bateman, T. S., & Crant, J. M. (1993). The proactive component of organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 14, 103-118. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.4030140202

https://doi.org/10.1002/job.4030140202

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