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    Interdependent Followers Prefer Avoidant Leaders: Followers’ Cultural Orientation Moderates Leaders’ Avoidance Relationships with Followers’ Work Outcomes


    Kafetsios, Konstantinos G. and Gruda, Dritjon (2018) Interdependent Followers Prefer Avoidant Leaders: Followers’ Cultural Orientation Moderates Leaders’ Avoidance Relationships with Followers’ Work Outcomes. Frontiers in Communications, 3 (9). pp. 1-8. ISSN 2297-900X

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    Abstract

    Several studies examining leader–follower interaction in Greece, a collectivistic culture, paradoxically find that leaders’ emotion suppression-related personality traits (attachment avoidance, emotion suppression, emotion control) are associated with followers’ positive emotional and work attitude outcomes. These findings have been explained with reference to followers’ implicit cultural schemas, interdependence in particular. Yet, this conjuncture has not been directly tested. The present study directly examined, in a field setting, how followers’ independent and interdependent (cultural) self-construal moderate the relationship between leaders’ attachment orientation and followers’ emotion and satisfaction outcomes at the work place. As hypothesized, leaders’ higher avoidance was associated with followers’ job satisfaction, group cohesion, and deep acting as well as lower negative affect and loneliness for followers higher on interdependent self-construal. The results underline perceptual processes involved in followers’ interdependent self-construal in relation to leaders’ emotion suppression-related traits.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: leadership; adult attachment; cultural orientation; emotion regulation; work relationships;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 17637
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00009
    Depositing User: Jon Gruda
    Date Deposited: 04 Oct 2023 08:58
    Journal or Publication Title: Frontiers in Communications
    Publisher: Frontiers Media
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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