ABSTRACT
Individuals vary in their tendency to engage in proactive behavior. To explain these individual dierences, scholars have focused on the role of personality traits in shaping proactive behavior. In this chapter, we rst review studies that examine the eect of personality traits and their joint inuence with environmental factors in shaping proactive behavior. We next employ a personality development perspective to suggest that environmental factors can shape individuals’ personality over time and thus their proactive behavior, in the long run, extending the research by introducing a dierent perspective of personality. The implications of the personality development perspective for proactivity research are discussed.
