Financial stress and leadership behavior: The role of leader gender.

IF 5.9 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1037/ocp0000387
Trevor M Spoelma,Keaton A Fletcher
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Concern about personal finances is one of the most widespread and salient sources of stress. We advance our emerging understanding of the work-related impacts of financial stress by examining the consequences of personal financial stress on leadership behavior. Drawing on compensatory control theory, we propose that financial stress positively relates to abusive supervision via a lowered sense of personal control. Integrating social role theory, we propose that these effects are stronger for leaders who are men than leaders who are women. We test our model in a vignette-based study using a sample of leaders (N = 201) and a second multiwave, multisource field survey study among leaders and their subordinates (N = 119 leader-subordinate dyads). Across both studies, we found that financial stress was positively associated with abusive supervision via lack of control and that this relationship was stronger for men than women. In Study 2, we examined an alternative tend-and-befriend theoretical account, proposing that leaders who are women exhibit more communion-striving motivation and empathic leadership as a result of financial stress. We found some support for this alternative pathway, though not gender differences in it, and in doing so we uncovered novel outcomes of financial stress. Our results offer implications for supporting employee financial health and uncover a context wherein men (and their subordinates), rather than women, experience the costs of misalignment with societal gender expectations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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财务压力与领导行为:领导者性别的作用。
对个人财务状况的担忧是最普遍、最突出的压力来源之一。通过研究个人财务压力对领导行为的影响,我们进一步了解了财务压力对工作的影响。借鉴补偿控制理论,我们提出财务压力与滥用监督之间存在正相关,因为个人控制感会降低。结合社会角色理论,我们提出男性领导比女性领导受到的影响更大。我们在一项基于小故事的研究(样本为 201 名领导者)和第二项针对领导者及其下属的多波次、多来源实地调查研究(样本为 119 名领导者-下属二人组)中检验了我们的模型。在这两项研究中,我们发现经济压力与缺乏控制的滥用性监督呈正相关,而且男性的这种关系比女性更强。在研究 2 中,我们考察了另一种 "倾向与友谊 "的理论解释,即女性领导者会因经济压力而表现出更多的共融动力和移情领导力。我们发现这一替代途径得到了一定的支持,尽管其中并不存在性别差异,同时我们还发现了财务压力的新结果。我们的研究结果为支持员工的财务健康提供了启示,并揭示了男性(及其下属)而非女性因与社会性别期望不一致而付出代价的背景。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology offers research, theory, and public policy articles in occupational health psychology, an interdisciplinary field representing a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and specializations. Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life and to protecting and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of workers. This journal focuses on the work environment, the individual, and the work-family interface.
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