Children’s daily well-being: The role of mothers’, teachers’, and siblings’ autonomy support and psychological control.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between transformational leadership (TL), autonomy support management behaviors and employees’ psychological health. Design/methodology/approach A total of 512 Canadian workers assessed their immediate supervisor’s level of TL and autonomy support management behaviors. Participants also assessed their own psychological health through measures of psychological well-being and burnout at work. Findings Results from structural equation modeling indicate that TL is related to employee psychological well-being and burnout. This effect is fully mediated by more specific autonomy support and psychological control management behaviors. These results suggest that autonomy support and psychological control management behaviors may have a more proximal effect on employees’ psychological health than TL does. Also, managers’ leadership and behaviors appear to better predict employees’ psychological well-being at work than employee burnout. Practical implications Managers with a TL style employ more autonomy support and fewer psychological control behaviors, which makes employees happier and less burned out. Based on these results, leadership training programs would gain to focus on the development of more specific management behaviors among leaders, such as autonomy support, to enhance employees’ psychological health, especially their well-being. Originality/value This research expands understanding of the relationship between TL and the psychological health of employees by shedding light on the mediating role of autonomy support management behaviors in this relationship.

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Becoming a perfectionistic adolescent: Perceived parental behaviors involved in developmental trajectories of perfectionism

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1177/08902070211012902 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089020702110129

Author(s):

Lavinia E Damian ◽

Oana Negru-Subtirica ◽

Eleonora I Pop ◽

Joachim Stoeber

Keyword(s):

Autonomy Support ◽

Psychological Control ◽

Parental Behavior ◽

Behavioral Control ◽

Developmental Trajectories ◽

Growth Mixture Modeling ◽

Parental Behaviors ◽

Growth Mixture ◽

Socially Prescribed Perfectionism

Perfectionism is a pervasive and prevalent personality disposition with high implications for psychological maladjustment. Adolescence represents a particularly relevant period for the development of perfectionism, and perceived parental behaviors have been shown to play an important part. Yet, so far only few longitudinal studies have investigated the role of risk and protective parental behaviors in the development of perfectionism in adolescents. Examining a sample of 744 adolescents ( Mage = 15.2 years), the present study investigated developmental trajectories of self-oriented, socially prescribed, and other-oriented perfectionism over four waves spaced five to six months apart. Results of growth mixture modeling showed that self-oriented perfectionism followed three developmental trajectories (low and decreasing; medium and decreasing; high and stable) as did socially prescribed perfectionism (low and stable; medium and increasing; high and stable). Other-oriented perfectionism showed four developmental trajectories (low and decreasing; low and stable; high and stable; high and increasing). Significant differences were observed between groups regarding all investigated perceived parental behaviors (psychological control, behavioral control, responsiveness, and autonomy support). Similarities and differences between the development of each form of perfectionism and the role of each parental behavior as well as implications of these findings for the understanding of the development of perfectionism in adolescence are discussed.

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Workplace Well-Being: The Role of Job Crafting, Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Autonomy Support

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0403.070 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Dr. Chandrani Sen ◽

Ruchi Khandelwal

Keyword(s):

Organizational Support ◽

Autonomy Support ◽

Perceived Organizational Support ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Well Being ◽

Job Design ◽

Job Crafting ◽

Perceived Autonomy Support ◽

Do So

At workplace, managers have adopted practices to increase the well-being of the staff. Job crafting has been recently recognized as something that organizations can stimulate them to do so themselves by making them think about job design that puts employees “ in the driver’s seat” in cultivating meaningfulness in their work. Along with job crafting, perceived organizational support, perceived autonomy support can also play a lot of role in the well-being of employees. The present paper results revealed a significant positive relationship between all the variables and regression also predicted Perceived organizational Support as the most contributing factor to Workplace Well-being.

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