Explaining the Pathways Between Approach-Avoidance Personality Traits and Employees’ Job Search Behavior
研究揭示了外向性和神经质这两种趋近-回避人格特质如何通过多种中介机制（如抱负价值观、求职自我效能、工作挑战感知、工作倦怠、经济不足感和工作满意度）同时产生正反两方面的影响，从而解释员工的求职行为。
Research suggests that certain personality characteristics lead to greater (or lesser) withdrawal from work, yet little research has examined exactly how personality translates into withdrawal behavior. To address this question, the present study demonstrated that the approach-avoidance personality traits of extraversion and neuroticism each showed simultaneous positive and negative effects on job search behaviors of employed individuals depending on the mediating mechanism involved (i.e., ambition values, job search self-efficacy, perceived job challenge, work burnout, perceived financial inadequacy, and job satisfaction). The authors’ findings extend theoretical insights on the pathways linking dispositional traits and employee withdrawal behaviors and suggest how employers can more precisely anticipate and mitigate employees’ search for new employment.