The Mediating Role of Goal Striving in the Effect of Personality Trait on Experience Meaningfulness

Abstract

Goal striving is a continual motivating approach that influences an employee’s performance at work on a current day as well as how they perceive and how they handle work the next day. This study’s goal was to investigate the mediating function that goal-striving autonomy devours in the consequence of personality trait openness to experience the psychological state of experienced meaningfulness. The literature contains rare studies on the link among personality trait openness to experience, goal-striving autonomy, and experienced meaningfulness. The study used self-determination theory and goal-striving autonomy as a mediator, which improves the novelty of the study. This study was supported to subsidize the related research. Utilizing survey-based
data, this study analyzed the responses of 753 employees working for the last five years in various sectors (e.g. pharmaceuticals, pesticides, fast-moving consumer goods) in Pakistan. The study used a time log method of data collection and the PROCESS macro Model 4 was used to analyze the data. The results show that goal-striving autonomy has a significant and positive impact on the relationship between the personality trait openness to experience and the psychological state of experienced
meaningfulness. The core objective of the study is that when autonomy motivation force associated with personality trait openness to experience in recital by these persistent motivational goal strivings, persons practice the emotional condition of experience meaningfulness.