Proactive personality and cross-cultural adjustment: Roles of social media usage and cultural intelligence

Proactive Personality and Academic Engagement: The Mediating Effects of Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Self-Efficacy

“…Compared to the previous research (Charalampous and Kokkinos, 2014 ), the present study chooses another personality trait and also gets the same model. The most obvious trait of proactive personality involves changing the environment (Bateman and Crant, 1993 ; Hu et al, 2020 ). Students with proactive personalities are more willing and open to interact with teachers and establish positive teacher-student relationships, which contributes to engaging and completing tasks.…”

“…However, to the best of our knowledge, no study explores the relationship between proactive personality and teacherstudent relationships. There were several indirect evidences (Sanchez-Cardona et al, 2012;Charalampous and Kokkinos, 2014;Hua et al, 2020;Hu et al, 2020). For example, Hu et al (2020) found that students with a proactive personality tend to show more psychological comfort, acquaintance their with social environment (i.e., like interacting with professors), and social adjustment.…”

“…Proactive individuals tend to scan for opportunities, look for all possibilities to utilize resources, and shape the environment (Parker and Collins, 2010 ). They have a higher level of persistence, demonstrate initiate to overcome difficulties from unexpected environments, and involve themselves to fulfill their ambitions (Hu et al, 2020 ). For example, Major et al ( 2012 ) found that students with a higher level of proactive personality were less likely to disengage and used fewer avoidant strategies to reduce effort or give up in stressful situations.…”

Information Cascades and Online Shopping

“…In fact, consumers may have different cultural orientations with different countries. Moreover, some studies have found the moderating role of cultural orientation from the perspective of social impact (Hu et al, 2020;Lee and Choi, 2019;Pettifor et al, 2017). Pettifor et al (2017) proposed a unique and transparent method to analyze climate change mitigation, which is to merge the effects of social influence into globally integrated assessment models.…”

“…The influence of customers' cultural orientation on their cognitions and behaviors has been confirmed by a great many of studies (Deufel et al, 2019;Moon et al, 2008;Shiu et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2019). Although some recent literature has analyzed the moderating effects of cultural orientation on word-of-mouth behavior (Lee and Choi, 2019), social media usage (Hu et al, 2020), and diffusion of innovations (Pettifor et al, 2017) from the perspective of social impact, there is no research on consumer behavior combined with information cascades and cultural orientation. Due to the important impact of information cascades on online purchase behaviors, online merchants can design their marketing strategies to enable informational cascades to work for, and not against, them Liu et al, 2016).…”