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Barbaranelli, Claudio, Paciello, Marinella, Biagioli, Valentina, Fida, Roberta 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6733-461X and Tramontano, Carlo
(2019)
Positivity and behaviour: The mediating role of self-efficacy in organisational and educational settings.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 20 (3).
707–727.
ISSN 1389-4978
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Abstract
Positivity is an evaluative disposition capturing what self-esteem, life satisfaction and optimism have in common. Self-efficacy refers to specific beliefs aimed at exercising control over the events through self-regulation. This paper examines in two studies whether the effect of positivity on performance is mediated by self-efficacy beliefs. The first examines the role of task and empathic self-efficacy in mediating the relationship of positivity with respect to in-role and extra-role behaviours in a sample of 829 Italian adult employees. The second examines the role of academic self-efficacy in mediating the relationship of positivity with respect to academic grades and academic citizenship behaviour on a sample of 223 Italian university students. Structural Equation Models results revealed that: (1) the relationship between positivity and both in-role and extra-role behaviours was substantially mediated by self-efficacy beliefs; (2) the relationship between positivity and both school grades and citizenship behaviours was completely mediated by self-efficacy beliefs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | academic success,meditation,self-efficacy,positivity,in-role behaviour,extra-role behaviour |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2018 10:36 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 18:36 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66810 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10902-018-9972-4 |
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