Daily job crafting as trait expression: Big Five personality activated by emotional demands

Abstract Purpose This study investigates how trait-level personality differences and day-level situational demands jointly shape proactive work behaviors in the form of job crafting. Building on Trait Activation Theory, we argue that emotional demands in the workplace function as trait-relevant situational cues that make stable personality differences more behaviorally salient in daily job crafting behavior. Drawing on Density Distribution reasoning as a conceptual lens, we further note that sta