proaction

English

Noun

proaction (countable and uncountable, plural proactions)

1. Proactive behavior or influence.
   • 2013, Daniel S. Newman, Demystifying the School Psychology Internship, →ISBN:

     However, there are also numerous actions supervisors can take in order to encourage intern proaction.

   • 2014, Michael S. DeVivo, Leadership in American Academic Geography, →ISBN:

     Those twenty-two that have been classified as transformational leaders all showed evidence of high levels of inspiration, integrity, selflessness, scholarship, and proaction.

   • 2017, Alessandro Grecucci, Remo Job, Jon J. Frederickson, Advances in Emotion Regulation: From Neuroscience to Psychotherapy, →ISBN:

     The goal of this part of the treatment involves the client's ability to use mindful emotion regulation skills that facilitate taking proactions that reflect a meaningful and rewarding life path.

   • 2017, Donald K. Routh, The Experimental Psychology of Mental Retardation, →ISBN, page 111:

     Klinman (1964) reported much greater proaction for "component testing" designs than for problems in which the redundant training stimuli and test-trial stimuli were identical. This suggests that retroaction and proaction have greater effects when training and test items are not identical.