Leaders' Role in Shaping Followers' Well-Being: Crossover in a Sample of Nurses.

ABSTRACT: The link between well-being at work and leadership has received considerable attention. Leaders have the power to influence followers not only due to formal position, but also their positive behaviors could reinforce the followers' positive working experience. Following the crossover model (Westman, 2001), this study investigates whether leaders' work-related positive psychological states (i.e., work engagement) cross over to those of the followers (i.e., work engagement and job satisfaction) through the mediation of the latter's perception of transformational leadership. We used MPlus 8 to test two multilevel mediations in a sample of 1505 nurses nested in 143 groups led by as many leaders (87.19% of nurses and 56.50% of head nurses of the entire population). Results show that while there

SUBMITTER: Caputo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9916091 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature