ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B
主办:中国心理学会
   中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理学报 ›› 2025, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (3): 479-494.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2025.0479 cstr: 32110.14.2025.0479

• 研究报告 • 上一篇    下一篇

辱虐管理变化的动态前因:一个潜变化分数模型

王永跃1, 王静1, 刘军2, 金杨华3()   

  1. 1浙江工商大学工商管理学院, 杭州 310018
    2武汉理工大学管理学院/数字治理与管理决策创新研究院, 武汉 430070
    3浙江金融职业学院, 杭州 310018
  • 收稿日期:2023-05-07 发布日期:2025-01-24 出版日期:2025-03-25
  • 通讯作者: 金杨华, E-mail: jinyanghua@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金重点项目(23AGL022);国家社会科学基金重点项目(22AGL014)

Dynamic antecedents of changes in abusive supervision: A latent change score model

WANG Yongyue1, WANG Jing1, LIU Jun2, JIN Yanghua3()   

  1. 1School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China’
    2School of Management/Research Institute of Digital Governance and Management Decision Innovation, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
    3Zhejiang Financial College, Hangzhou 310018, China
  • Received:2023-05-07 Online:2025-01-24 Published:2025-03-25

摘要:

在辱虐管理前因研究中, 以往研究主要关注辱虐管理持续高水平的前因, 然而文献对于辱虐管理变化(增加或减少)的前因却知之甚少。基于社会互动理论和趋近−回避框架, 本研究探讨了领导辱虐管理变化通过下属趋近−回避行为变化的中介作用对领导后续辱虐管理变化的差异化效应。通过对配对的263位领导和263位下属进行四阶段的追踪研究, 潜变化分数模型结果表明:(1)领导辱虐管理变化通过下属建设性趋近行为(如建设性抵抗)变化、破坏性趋近行为(如功能失调抵抗)变化和回避行为(如防御性沉默)变化的平行中介作用差异化影响领导后续辱虐管理变化。(2)领导自恋调节下属建设性抵抗变化和防御性沉默变化的平行中介路径。本文的研究发现不仅为辱虐管理变化的动态前因研究提供了更加全面和辩证的视角, 而且从领导−下属双向视角为辱虐管理的化解之道提供了实践启示。

关键词: 辱虐管理, 社会互动理论, 趋近?回避框架, 自恋, 潜变化分数模型

Abstract:

The antecedents of abusive supervision have received heightened attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. However, there are two unresolved issues related to current research on the antecedents of abusive supervision. First, traditional research considers abusive supervision to be a static leadership behavior, ignoring the dynamic nature of abusive supervision. Although recent studies have embraced a dynamic perspective to focus on the changes in abusive supervision at different time points during the interaction between leaders and subordinates, these studies are still exploring the antecedents of high levels of abusive supervision at specific points in time. Existing theories and findings on abusive supervision (variable level → abusive supervision level) cannot explain the dynamic antecedents of changes in abusive supervision in dynamic leader−follower interactions (variable change → abusive supervision change). Second, the existing literature lacks a framework to integrate the different effects of leader−follower interactions on abusive supervision. To overcome the previously discussed issues, based on social interaction theory and the approach−avoidance framework, we propose that changes in subordinates’ approach−avoidance behaviors mediate the effects of changes in former abusive supervision on changes in subsequent abusive supervision, and leader narcissism moderates the proposed indirect pathways.

This study conducted a four-wave longitudinal study on 263 leaders and 263 subordinates. In the first-wave survey, leaders reported abusive supervision during the previous two weeks, as well as narcissism, agreeableness, and demographic variables; meanwhile, subordinates reported demographic variables. In the second-wave survey, leaders reported abusive supervision during the previous two weeks, and subordinates reported constructive resistance, dysfunctional resistance, and defensive silence during the previous two weeks. In the third-wave survey, leaders reported abusive supervision during the previous two weeks, and subordinates reported constructive resistance, dysfunctional resistance, and defensive silence during the previous two weeks. Finally, in the fourth-wave survey, leaders reported abusive supervision during the previous two weeks. Using Mplus 8.3 and R 4.2.1, we constructed a latent change score model and conducted Monte Carlo simulations to examine the theoretical model.

Empirical results supported our theoretical model and indicated the following: (1) Changes in former abusive supervision had different indirect effects on changes in subsequent abusive supervision through parallel mediators of changes in subordinate’s constructive approach-oriented behavior (i.e., constructive resistance), changes in destructive approach-oriented behavior (i.e., dysfunctional resistance), and changes in avoidance-oriented behavior (i.e., defensive silence). Specifically, changes in former abusive supervision had a negative indirect effect on changes in subsequent abusive supervision through changes in constructive resistance. Changes in former abusive supervision had a positive indirect effect on changes in subsequent abusive supervision through changes in dysfunctional resistance and changes in defensive silence. (2) Leader narcissism moderated the two proposed indirect pathways. Specifically, the negative indirect effect of former abusive supervision on changes in subsequent abusive supervision through changes in constructive resistance is stronger when leader narcissism is high; the positive indirect effect of former abusive supervision on changes in subsequent abusive supervision through changes in defensive silence is stronger when leader narcissism is high.

The study makes several theoretical contributions. First, we adopt a latent change score approach to determine the dynamic antecedents of change in abusive supervision, which shifts the direction of abusive supervision research from “level of abusive supervision” to “changes in abusive supervision, ” providing not only new perspectives but also more precise and rigorous causal analyses. Second, we integrate the differential mediating effects of changes in constructive resistance, changes in destructive resistance, and changes in defensive silence in the process of “changes in abusive supervision → changes in subordinates’ approach-avoidance behavior → changes in abusive supervision”, providing a more comprehensive and dialectical perspective for the study of the dynamic antecedents of changes in abusive supervision. Third, by exploring the combined positive and negative moderation effects of leader narcissism, we reinforce the boundary conditions of the dynamic antecedents of changes in abusive supervision from a more comprehensive and dialectical perspective.

Key words: abusive supervision, social interaction theory, approach?avoidance framework, narcissism, latent change score model

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