The current research examined the link between both normal and malevolent personality, proactive attitude, and self-perceived employability across some highly investigated (Belgium, Switzerland) and under-investigated populations of sub-Saharan Africa (e.g., Togo), considering proactive attitude as a potential mediator and self-perceived employability as an outcome. Conducting such a study in contexts which present notable differences in political organization and linguistic diversity, might contribute to enriching the literature on the relationships between personality and self-perceived employability. A sample of 968 participants aged 18 to 85 including 335 Belgians (50% women), 279 Swiss (58.1% women) and 354 Togolese (43.5% women) completed a French version of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ/SF), Short Dark Triad (SD3), Proactive Attitude Scale (PAS), and Perceived Employability Scale (PES). All four instruments exhibited metric invariance but did not systematically show scalar invariance across the three countries. ZKA-PQ/SF’s activity and neuroticism and SD3’s narcissism dimensions predicted perceived employability, and these relations were fully or partially mediated by proactive attitude in all cultural contexts. Moreover, perceived employability was predicted by aggressiveness and psychopathy in the Swiss sample and by sensation seeking in both the Swiss and the Belgian samples. Finally, proactive attitude fully mediated between sensation seeking and employability in Belgium and partially between psychopathy and employability in Switzerland. This study illustrates that the link between personality and employability may be mediated by proactive attitude and that these links may be quite robust across cultures.

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正常人格、黑暗三元组、积极态度和感知就业能力：比利时、瑞士和多哥的跨文化研究

目前的研究调查了撒哈拉以南非洲（例如多哥）一些高度调查（比利时、瑞士）和调查不足的人群中正常和恶意人格、积极态度和自我感知就业能力之间的联系，认为积极态度是潜在的中介和自我感知的就业能力作为结果。在政治组织和语言多样性存在显着差异的背景下进行这样的研究，可能有助于丰富关于个性与自我感知就业能力之间关系的文献。包括 335 名比利时人（50% 女性）、279 名瑞士人（58.1% 女性）和 354 名多哥人（43.5% 女性）在内的 968 名 18 至 85 岁参与者的样本完成了法文版的祖克曼-库尔曼-阿鲁哈人格问卷 (ZKA-PQ) /SF), 短黑暗三元组 (SD3)、主动态度量表 (PAS) 和感知就业能力量表 (PES)。所有四种工具都表现出度量不变性，但没有系统地显示三个国家的标量不变性。ZKA-PQ/SF 的活动性和神经质以及 SD3 的自恋维度预测了感知的就业能力，并且这些关系完全或部分由所有文化背景下的积极态度介导。此外，在瑞士样本中的攻击性和精神病态以及在瑞士和比利时样本中的感觉寻求预测了感知的就业能力。最后，积极态度在比利时的感觉寻求和就业能力之间完全中介，在瑞士在精神病和就业能力之间部分中介。