For Better or for Worse? The Impact of Proactivity on Well-Being

Studies relating proactivity to well-being consequences remain scarce. This symposium brings together a series of papers that aim to address this gap and explore the consequences of proactivity for well-being outcomes. The four papers investigate how proactive behavior impacts individuals’ well-being, focusing on both hedonic (e.g., exhaustion) and eudaimonic (e.g., meaningfulness) forms of well-being. The papers highlight that the effects of...