The dual-level effects of authentic leadership on teacher wellbeing: the mediating role of psychological availability

IF 3.3 3区管理学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Personnel Review Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI:10.1108/pr-11-2021-0792

Zhihua Xu, Fu Yang

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PurposeDrawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, this study examined the mediating role of psychological availability in the relationships between principals' individual-level and group-level authentic leadership and individual teachers' wellbeing, that is, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and emotional exhaustion.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a three-wave online questionnaire survey among 266 teachers from 52 schools in China. Multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) was used to analyze the hypothesized relationships among the study variables.FindingsThe principals' group-level and individual-level authentic leadership were both positively associated with individual teachers' psychological availability, which in turn was positively related to their job satisfaction and life satisfaction, and negatively related to their emotional exhaustion.Practical implicationsSchool administrations should elevate the levels of principals' authentic leadership by selecting and developing authentic principals to increase teacher wellbeing.Originality/valueDiffering from prior research that has focused on the effect of authentic leadership at either group-level or individual-level, this study simultaneously investigated the dual-level effects of principals' authentic leadership. Moreover, psychological availability was found to mediate the dual-level effects of principals' authentic leadership on teachers' job satisfaction, life satisfaction and emotional exhaustion.

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真实领导对教师幸福感的双重影响:心理可得性的中介作用

目的运用资源守恒理论，探讨心理可得性在校长个人层面和团体层面真实领导与教师个体幸福感(工作满意度、生活满意度和情绪耗竭)之间的中介作用。设计/方法/方法作者对中国52所学校的266名教师进行了三波在线问卷调查。采用多层结构方程模型(MSEM)对研究变量之间的假设关系进行分析。发现校长群体层面和个人层面的真实领导与教师个体的心理可得性正相关，心理可得性与教师个体的工作满意度和生活满意度正相关，与教师个体的情绪耗竭负相关。实践启示学校管理部门应通过选择和培养真正的校长来提升校长的真实领导水平，以增加教师的幸福感。原创性/价值不同于以往的研究只关注真实领导在群体或个人层面的影响，本研究同时调查了校长真实领导的双重效应。此外，心理可得性在校长真实领导对教师工作满意度、生活满意度和情绪耗竭的双重效应中起中介作用。

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