Mobility and Emotions

Jan Selmer and Jakob Lauring

International Studies of Management & Organization, 2014, vol. 44, issue 3, 25-43

Abstract: Increasing global mobility has directed attention to the self-initiated relocation of workers from one country to another. However, not all individuals are equally suited to start up a new life in another country, and self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) could be particularly vulnerable due to having no support from a home organization. Accordingly, the personality of SIEs could be even more important than that of organizational expatriates. Moreover, extant research on the relation between the "Big Five" personality traits and expatriate adjustment has been inconclusive. Hence, there could be good reasons to investigate other personality traits that may more accurately predict adjustment. In this article we focus on the effect of the personality traits' dispositional affectivity on the adjustment of 329 SIEs in Denmark. Results showed consistent beneficial associations between positive affectivity and all the studied adjustment variables, and detrimental relationships between negative affectivity and the studied dependent variables.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825440302

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