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Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision
Do victims really help their abusive supervisors? Does abusive supervision have any positive consequence? The study aims to address this concern through extending the work by Tröster and Van Quaquebeke (2021). Using subordinates’ self-reports, Tröster and Van Quaquebeke (2021) found that abusive sup...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13100815 |
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description | Do victims really help their abusive supervisors? Does abusive supervision have any positive consequence? The study aims to address this concern through extending the work by Tröster and Van Quaquebeke (2021). Using subordinates’ self-reports, Tröster and Van Quaquebeke (2021) found that abusive supervision in high-quality leader–member exchange (LMX) relationship motivates subordinates to blame themselves, subsequently making them feel guilty and make up for it by being more helpful. By integrating both subordinates’ and supervisors’ perspectives, and using multi-wave, multi-source, and multi-level data collected in China, we obtain three major findings. First, as a replication of their findings, LMX moderates the direct effect of abusive supervision on workplace self-blame, and the indirect effect of abusive supervision on workplace guilt via workplace self-blame. The positive direct and indirect effects are stronger when LMX quality is higher. Second, different from their findings, LMX moderates the indirect effect of abusive supervision on supervisor-directed helping (evaluated by supervisors) via workplace self-blame and workplace guilt such that the negative indirect effect is stronger when LMX quality is higher. Third, as an extension, supervisor-evaluated LMX (SLMX) moderates the effect of workplace guilt on supervisor-directed helping such that the negative effect is stronger when SLMX is lower-quality. Put together, LMX and SLMX moderate the indirect effect of abusive supervision on supervisor-directed helping via workplace self-blame and workplace guilt. The negative indirect effect is stronger when LMX quality is higher, but SLMX quality is lower. Our study challenges previous speculations on the positive or beneficial consequences of abusive supervision, and thus contributes to the literature on abusive supervision. |
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spelling | pubmed-106042762023-10-28 Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision Pan, Wen Sun, Li-Yun Behav Sci (Basel) Article Do victims really help their abusive supervisors? Does abusive supervision have any positive consequence? The study aims to address this concern through extending the work by Tröster and Van Quaquebeke (2021). Using subordinates’ self-reports, Tröster and Van Quaquebeke (2021) found that abusive supervision in high-quality leader–member exchange (LMX) relationship motivates subordinates to blame themselves, subsequently making them feel guilty and make up for it by being more helpful. By integrating both subordinates’ and supervisors’ perspectives, and using multi-wave, multi-source, and multi-level data collected in China, we obtain three major findings. First, as a replication of their findings, LMX moderates the direct effect of abusive supervision on workplace self-blame, and the indirect effect of abusive supervision on workplace guilt via workplace self-blame. The positive direct and indirect effects are stronger when LMX quality is higher. Second, different from their findings, LMX moderates the indirect effect of abusive supervision on supervisor-directed helping (evaluated by supervisors) via workplace self-blame and workplace guilt such that the negative indirect effect is stronger when LMX quality is higher. Third, as an extension, supervisor-evaluated LMX (SLMX) moderates the effect of workplace guilt on supervisor-directed helping such that the negative effect is stronger when SLMX is lower-quality. Put together, LMX and SLMX moderate the indirect effect of abusive supervision on supervisor-directed helping via workplace self-blame and workplace guilt. The negative indirect effect is stronger when LMX quality is higher, but SLMX quality is lower. Our study challenges previous speculations on the positive or beneficial consequences of abusive supervision, and thus contributes to the literature on abusive supervision. MDPI 2023-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10604276/ /pubmed/37887465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13100815 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Pan, Wen Sun, Li-Yun Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision |
title | Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision |
title_full | Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision |
title_fullStr | Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision |
title_full_unstemmed | Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision |
title_short | Do Victims Really Help Their Abusive Supervisors? Reevaluating the Positive Consequences of Abusive Supervision |
title_sort | do victims really help their abusive supervisors? reevaluating the positive consequences of abusive supervision |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13100815 |
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