Compare and contrast Proactive personality and Core Self-Evaluations. How are these two concepts the same, and how are they different?

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Core Self-Evaluations is a relatively new personality trait concept; however, it is comprised of four of the oldest and most frequently studied personality traits: Emotional Stability, Self-Esteem, Locus of Control, and Generalized Self-Efficacy. Judge et al. defined Core Self-Evaluations this way:
Core Self-Evaluations is a higher-order concept representing the fundamental evaluations that people make about themselves and their functioning in the environment. Individuals with positive Core Self-Evaluations appraise themselves in a consistently positive manner across situations; such individuals see themselves as capable, worthy, and in control of their lives. (2004, pp. 326–327)
As defined in this study (Thomas et al., 2010, p. 276), “Proactive personality reflects a relatively stable dispositional tendency for individuals to control situational forces and actively incite change in their environments” (e.g., Bateman & Crant, 1993) [italics and boldface added]. A proactive orientation may be especially important during turbulent times (Bateman & Crant, 2010, p. 276): “Proactive employees who succeed within these dynamic environments do so by realizing that they do not have to play the hand they were dealt. Rather, top performers tend to proactively create circumstances that facilitate personal and organizational success.”
Proactive personality may be closely related to the internal locus of control dimension of Core Self-Evaluations, which is defined in the text this way: Locus of Control, by the way, refers to the belief that you control what happens to you. People with an External Locus of Control believe that outside forces—chance, fate, luck, other people—determine what happens to them; conversely, people with an Internal Locus of Control believe that they determine their own destiny through their own actions and efforts.