Purpose: To explore the relationship between Proactive Personality and
undergraduate students’ innovative spirit. Significance: To explore the relationship
between proactive personality and innovative spirit is helpful to provide empirical
and theoretical support for the innovation education in colleges and universities.
Introducing individual differences into research makes innovation education more
teaching accordance with the character. Method: 472 undergraduate students were
surveyed with a proactive personality scale of 10 items and a scale of innovative
spirit of undergraduate students. Results: (1) The innovation spirit of undergraduate
students is significantly different between the sexes; (2) There are significant
differences in proactive personality, innovative spirit and various dimensions between
the former class leader and the former; (3) Innovative spirit, innovative personality,
psychological quality and innovative behavior characteristics in different grades.
There is a significant difference. Conclusion: There is a significant positive correlation
between undergraduate students’ proactive personality and innovative spirit. Different
levels of proactive personality have significant difference on the innovation spirit and its four dimensions, and proactive personality has positive influence on the innovation
spirit.