Reducing daily abusive supervision caused by subordinates’ venting through learning opportunity appraisal: A study from leaders’ perspective

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2024.01556

ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

Acta Psychologica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (11): 1556-1567.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2024.01556

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Reducing daily abusive supervision caused by subordinates’ venting through learning opportunity appraisal: A study from leaders’ perspective

LIU Depeng¹, PANG Xuhong²(), SONG Jie², LI Juexing³, YANG Yiyi⁴, ZHANG Shengjun²

¹School of Management, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
²School of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
³School of Economics and Management, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China
⁴School of Business Administration, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China

Published:2024-11-25 Online:2024-09-05
Contact: PANG Xuhong E-mail:15954649589@163.com

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LIU Depeng, PANG Xuhong, SONG Jie, LI Juexing, YANG Yiyi, ZHANG Shengjun. (2024). Reducing daily abusive supervision caused by subordinates’ venting through learning opportunity appraisal: A study from leaders’ perspective. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 56(11), 1556-1567.

Model	χ²	df	χ²/df	Δχ²(Δdf)	RMSEA	CFI	TLI	SRMR_{within-person}	SRMR_{between-person}
1. Four-factor model: V, E, AS, LOA	488.71	215	2.27	—	0.03	0.97	0.96	0.02	0.04
2. Three-factor model: V, E+AS, LOA	3104.35	221	14.05	2615.64(6)	0.09	0.67	0.59	0.15	0.16
3. Two-factor model: V+E+AS, LOA	4793.45	225	21.30	1689.10(4)	0.12	0.47	0.36	0.19	0.17
4. One-factor model: V+E+AS+LOA	6780.30	227	29.87	1986.85(2)	0.14	0.24	0.09	0.27	0.28

Model	χ²	df	χ²/df	Δχ²(Δdf)	RMSEA	CFI	TLI	SRMR_{within-person}	SRMR_{between-person}
1. Four-factor model: V, E, AS, LOA	488.71	215	2.27	—	0.03	0.97	0.96	0.02	0.04
2. Three-factor model: V, E+AS, LOA	3104.35	221	14.05	2615.64(6)	0.09	0.67	0.59	0.15	0.16
3. Two-factor model: V+E+AS, LOA	4793.45	225	21.30	1689.10(4)	0.12	0.47	0.36	0.19	0.17
4. One-factor model: V+E+AS+LOA	6780.30	227	29.87	1986.85(2)	0.14	0.24	0.09	0.27	0.28

Variables	within-person variance (σ²)	between-person variance (τ₀₀)	Percentage of within-person variance (σ²/(σ²+τ₀₀))	ICC (1)
1. Daily subordinates’ venting	1.07^***	0.97^***	52.45 %	0.47
2. Daily learning opportunity appraisal	0.75^***	1.99^***	27.37 %	0.73
3. Daily ego depletion	0.59^***	1.21^***	32.78 %	0.67
4. Daily abusive supervision	0.16^***	0.48^***	25.00 %	0.74
5. Daily threat appraisal	0.37^***	0.87^***	29.84 %	0.70
6. Daily negative affect	0.49^***	1.15^***	29.88 %	0.70

Variables	within-person variance (σ²)	between-person variance (τ₀₀)	Percentage of within-person variance (σ²/(σ²+τ₀₀))	ICC (1)
1. Daily subordinates’ venting	1.07^***	0.97^***	52.45 %	0.47
2. Daily learning opportunity appraisal	0.75^***	1.99^***	27.37 %	0.73
3. Daily ego depletion	0.59^***	1.21^***	32.78 %	0.67
4. Daily abusive supervision	0.16^***	0.48^***	25.00 %	0.74
5. Daily threat appraisal	0.37^***	0.87^***	29.84 %	0.70
6. Daily negative affect	0.49^***	1.15^***	29.88 %	0.70

Variables	Means	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Within-person level
1. Daily subordinates’ venting	2.26	1.42	(0.93)	?0.01	0.49^***	0.49^***	0.55^***	0.50^***	0.50^***	0.49^***	?0.22^**
2. Daily learning opportunity appraisal	4.60	1.65	0.01	(0.95)	?0.20^**	?0.13	?0.16^*	?0.19^*	?0.19^**	?0.13	0.11
3. Daily ego depletion	2.32	1.34	0.09^***	0.00	(0.89)	0.50^***	0.65^***	0.73^***	0.98^***	0.49^***	?0.26^***
4. Daily abusive supervision	1.35	0.81	0.07^**	?0.02	0.12^***	(0.92)	0.72^***	0.61^***	0.51^***	0.99^***	?0.21^**
5. Daily threat appraisal	1.76	1.11	0.09^***	0.04	0.27^**	0.14^***	(0.94)	0.69^***	0.66^***	0.71^***	?0.20^**
6. Daily negative affect	1.97	1.27	0.07^**	?0.06^*	0.15^***	0.07^**	0.06^*	(0.91)	0.74^***	0.61^***	?0.35^***
7. Daily ego depletion (d-1)	2.32	1.31	0.01	?0.03	0.01	0.09^***	0.01	0.10^***		0.51^***	?0.27^***
8. Daily abusive supervision (d-1)	1.34	0.80	0.04	0.02	0.05	0.04	?0.01	0.05	0.09^***		?0.23^***
Between-person level
9. Managerial self-efficacy	6.04	0.83									(0.92)

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Variables	Daily ego depletion			Daily abusive supervision
Variables	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
Intercept	2.34^***(0.08)	2.34^*** (0.08)	2.34^*** (0.08)	0.65^*** (0.10)	0.65^*** (0.10)
Controls
Weekday	?0.02 (0.06)	?0.02 (0.06)	?0.03 (0.06)	0.03 (0.04)	0.03 (0.04)
Sine	?0.10 (0.10)	?0.08 (0.10)	?0.11 (0.10)	0.05 (0.06)	0.04 (0.06)
Cosine	0.02 (0.06)	0.03 (0.06)	0.03 (0.05)	0.00 (0.03)	0.00 (0.03)
Daily negative affect	0.16^***(0.03)	0.15^*** (0.03)	0.14^*** (0.03)	0.03 (0.02)	0.03 (0.02)
Daily ego depletion (d-1)	?0.00 (0.02)	?0.01 (0.02)	0.01 (0.02)
Daily abusive supervision (d-1)				0.03 (0.03)	0.03 (0.03)
Managerial self-efficacy	?0.36^***(0.10)	?0.36^** (0.10)	?0.36^*** (0.10)	?0.07 (0.06)	?0.07 (0.06)
Predictors
Daily subordinates’ venting		0.06^ (0.02)**	0.04^* (0.02)	0.02^* (0.01)	0.02 (0.01)
Daily learning opportunity appraisal			?0.01 (0.02)		?0.01 (0.01)
Daily threat appraisal			0.32^***(0.03)		0.07^*** (0.02)
Interactions
Daily subordinates’ venting × Daily learning opportunity appraisal			?0.05^* (0.03)
Daily subordinates’ venting × Daily threat appraisal			?0.04 (0.05)
Mediator
Daily ego depletion				0.05^* (0.01)**	0.04^* (0.02)
within-person residual variance	0.51	0.50	0.44	0.16	0.16
between-person residual variance	1.20	1.20	1.20	0.35	0.35
Pseudo R²	0.06	0.07	0.08	0.25	0.25

Variable	Daily subordinates’ venting → Daily ego depletion → Daily abusive supervision
Variable	Indirect effect	95% CI
1. Hihg Daily learning opportunity appraisal	?0.00(0.00)	?0.006, 0.002
2. Low Daily learning opportunity appraisal	0.01(0.00)	0.0005, 0.01
Difference	?0.01(0.00)	?0.02, ?0.00002