Coping with Dark Leadership: Examination of the Impact of Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Dark Leaders and Employees’ Basic Need Satisfaction in the Workplace
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Hypothesis Development
2.1. The Dark Triad of Personality and Destructive Leadership
2.2. Self-Determination Theory and Basic Need Satisfaction
2.3. Psychological Capital
3. Methods
3.1. Sample and Procedures
3.2. Measures
3.2.1. Dark Triad of Personality
3.2.2. Work-Related Basic Need Satisfaction
3.2.3. Psychological Capital
3.3. Avoidance of Common Method Bias
4. Results
4.1. Descriptive Statistics and Correlations
4.2. Hypotheses Testing
Predictors | Unstandardized Coefficients | Standardized Coefficients | |||
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B | SE | Beta (β) | t | p | |
(Constant) | 5.88 | 0.08 | 71.22 | <0.001 | |
Dark Triad (manager) | −0.24 | 0.03 | −0.41 | −9.68 | <0.001 |
Predictors | Unstandardized Coefficients | Standardized Coefficients | |||
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B | SE | Beta (β) | t | p | |
(Constant) | 5.58 | 0.09 | 71.80 | <0.001 | |
Dark Triad (manager) | −0.06 | 0.03 | −0.11 | −2.45 | 0.04 |
Predictors | Unstandardized Coefficients | Standardized Coefficients | |||
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B | SE | Beta (β) | t | p | |
(Constant) | 2.14 | 0.28 | 8.36 | <0.001 | |
Psychological capital (employee) | 0.56 | 0.05 | 0.48 | 11.95 | <0.001 |
5. Discussion
5.1. Theoretical and Practical Implications
5.2. Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Mean | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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1. Dark Triad (manager) | 2.95 | 1.49 | (0.95) | ||
2. Psychological capital (employee) | 5.41 | 0.76 | −0.11 * | (0.86) | |
3. Work-related basic need satisfaction (employee) | 5.17 | 0.88 | −0.41 ** | 0.48 ** | (0.89) |
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Elbers, A.; Kolominski, S.; Blesa Aledo, P.S. Coping with Dark Leadership: Examination of the Impact of Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Dark Leaders and Employees’ Basic Need Satisfaction in the Workplace. Adm. Sci. 2023, 13, 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci13040096
Elbers A, Kolominski S, Blesa Aledo PS. Coping with Dark Leadership: Examination of the Impact of Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Dark Leaders and Employees’ Basic Need Satisfaction in the Workplace. Administrative Sciences. 2023; 13(4):96. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci13040096
Chicago/Turabian StyleElbers, Alina, Stephan Kolominski, and Pablo Salvador Blesa Aledo. 2023. "Coping with Dark Leadership: Examination of the Impact of Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Dark Leaders and Employees’ Basic Need Satisfaction in the Workplace" Administrative Sciences 13, no. 4: 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci13040096