Table_1_When Mindfulness Interacts With Neuroticism to Enhance Transformational Leadership: The Role of Psychological Need Satisfaction.docx

Transformational leadership is a popular and well-researched leadership style. Although much is understood about its positive consequences, less research has focused on antecedents of transformational leadership. In this research we draw upon self-determination theory and incorporate a self-regulatory approach to investigate if and how leader mindfulness influences transformational leadership. The analyses show that autonomy, competence and relatedness need satisfaction mediate between mindfulness and transformational leadership, indicating that mindfulness is associated with psychological need satisfaction. Furthermore, the data show that neuroticism moderates the relationship between mindfulness and relatedness need satisfaction. Generally speaking, the association between mindfulness and relatedness need satisfaction is positive. When neuroticism is also high, mindfulness has the largest impact. Or conversely, when emotional stability is high, mindfulness has the smallest association with relatedness need satisfaction. This is in line with evidence suggesting that mindfulness may primarily exert its influence through emotional self-regulation. Furthermore, the moderated mediation model for relatedness need satisfaction is significant, indicating that neuroticism is a boundary condition for the indirect effect of mindfulness on transformational leadership through relatedness need satisfaction.

转型领导力是一种流行且经过广泛研究的管理风格。尽管对其积极后果的理解已相当深入，但针对转型领导力前因的研究却相对较少。在本研究中，我们借鉴了自我决定理论，并采纳了自我调节方法，以探究领导者正念如何影响转型领导力，以及影响的方式。分析结果表明，自主性、能力和关联性需求的满足在正念与转型领导力之间起到中介作用，表明正念与心理需求的满足相关。此外，数据表明，神经质会调节正念与关联性需求满足之间的关系。总体而言，正念与关联性需求满足之间的关联性呈正相关。当神经质水平较高时，正念对关联性需求满足的影响最大。反之，当情绪稳定性较高时，正念与关联性需求满足的相关性最小。这一发现与证据一致，表明正念可能主要通过情绪自我调节发挥其影响。此外，关联性需求满足的调节中介模型具有显著性，表明神经质是正念通过关联性需求满足间接影响转型领导力的边界条件。