Relationship between nurse’s voice and self‐leadership: A time‐lagged study

AIM: Less empirical attention has been paid to the positive relationship between voice behaviour and voice speaker development, such as self‐leadership. The present study explores the relationship among nurses’ voice, perceived insider status and self‐leadership. METHOD: This study was based on time‐lagged survey data collected from 608 frontline nurses. jamovi and PROCESS macro were used for analysis. RESULTS: Promotive voice and prohibitive voice were positively associated with self‐leadership. Perceived inside status mediated the relationship between promotive voice/prohibitive voice and self‐leadership. Prohibitive voice was more strongly related to self‐leadership than promotive voice. CONCLUSIONS: When nurses dare to voice, nurses’ self‐leadership can be enhanced through perceived insider status improving, especially for nurses who dare to prohibitive voice. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Nurse managers should protect the privacy of voice, continually provide feedback on voice and set up special encouragement for prohibitive voice.