Linking Psychological Capital to Organizational Commitment: The Moderating Role of Perceived Aversive Leadership of Employees in Angola
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Hypotheses
2.1. Psychological Capital
2.2. Organizational Commitment
2.3. Perceived Aversive Leadership
2.4. Psychological Capital and Organizational Commitment
2.5. Moderating Role of Perceived Aversive Leadership
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Participants and Procedure
3.2. Measures
3.3. Data Analysis
3.4. Measurement Validity
3.5. Assessing Common Method Bias
4. Results
4.1. Descriptive Statistics
4.2. Hypotheses Testing
5. Discussion
5.1. Limitations and Future Directions
5.2. Theoretical and Practical Implications
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Measurement Model | (χ2) | DF | p | CFI | GFI | TLI | RMSEA | SRMR |
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Psychological capital | 294.391 | 229 | <0.001 | 0.918 | 0.935 | 0.922 | 0.029 | 0.049 |
Affective commitment | 30.733 | 229 | <0.001 | 0.926 | 0.919 | 0.901 | 0.039 | 0.039 |
Normative commitment | 9.034 | 4 | <0.001 | 0.993 | 0.991 | 0.973 | 0.061 | 0.049 |
Continuance commitment | 22.732 | 7 | <0.001 | 0.988 | 0.981 | 0.964 | 0.079 | 0.029 |
Perceived aversive leadership | 17.147 | 5 | <0.001 | 0.982 | 0.984 | 0.947 | 0.079 | 0.030 |
Study Variables | M | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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1. Psychological Capital | 4.22 | 1.32 | (0.72) | |||||
2. Organizational commitment | 4.31 | 0.93 | 0.421 ** | (0.87) | ||||
3. Affective commitment | 4.01 | 1.55 | 0.348 ** | 0.788 ** | (0.89) | |||
4. Normative commitment | 3.72 | 1.48 | 0.458 ** | 0.787 ** | 0.567 ** | (0.79) | ||
5. Continuance commitment | 4.15 | 1.51 | 0.104 | 0.583 ** | 0.122 * | 0.139 * | (0.89) | |
6. Perceived aversive leadership | 2.68 | 1.18 | −0.074 | −0.207 ** | −0.133 * | −0.147 ** | −0.167 ** | (0.62) |
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Geremias, R.L.; Lopes, M.P.; Sotomayor, A.M. Linking Psychological Capital to Organizational Commitment: The Moderating Role of Perceived Aversive Leadership of Employees in Angola. Adm. Sci. 2024, 14, 177. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14080177
Geremias RL, Lopes MP, Sotomayor AM. Linking Psychological Capital to Organizational Commitment: The Moderating Role of Perceived Aversive Leadership of Employees in Angola. Administrative Sciences. 2024; 14(8):177. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14080177
Chicago/Turabian StyleGeremias, Rosa Lutete, Miguel Pereira Lopes, and Ana Maria Sotomayor. 2024. "Linking Psychological Capital to Organizational Commitment: The Moderating Role of Perceived Aversive Leadership of Employees in Angola" Administrative Sciences 14, no. 8: 177. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14080177