Clarity Inside, Curious Outside: Exploring the Linkages Among Vividness of Future Self, Perseverance, and Joyful Exploration

The study aims to investigate how vividness to future self affects Indian executives’ perseverancePerseverance and its subsequent impact their tendency to joyfully explore things at workplace. The study adopted a survey-based design among 202 executives working in diverse sectors in India. Structural equation modeling (SEM)Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied to check the role of perseverancePerseverance as mediator and its relationship with other key constructs. The findings demonstrated that Indian employees often involve in joyful explorationExploration at workplace and had a positive relation with vividness of futureVividness of future self. Moreover, perseverance had a positive relation with both vividness of futureVividness of future self and joyful explorationExploration and partially mediates their relationship. The study contributes by identifying the factors influencing the joyous explorationJoyous Exploration among Indian employees. Based on the findings, Indian organizations could aim to promote vividness of future to enhance the level of perseverancePerseverance and joyful explorationExploration among employees. This study contributes to existing literature by recognizing perseverance in a mediating capacity in positive relation of vividness to future and joyous explorationJoyous Exploration, specifically in Indian context.