TY - JOUR T1 - Transformational leadership moderates the relationship between emotional exhaustion and turnover intention among community mental health providers. AU - Green,Amy E, AU - Miller,Elizabeth A, AU - Aarons,Gregory A, Y1 - 2011/11/04/ PY - 2011/06/02/received PY - 2011/10/17/accepted PY - 2011/11/5/entrez PY - 2011/11/5/pubmed PY - 2013/11/20/medline SP - 373 EP - 9 JF - Community mental health journal JO - Community Ment Health J VL - 49 IS - 4 N2 - Public sector mental health care providers are at high risk for burnout and emotional exhaustion which negatively affect job performance and client satisfaction with services. Few studies have examined ways to reduce these associations, but transformational leadership may have a positive effect. We examine the relationships between transformational leadership, emotional exhaustion, and turnover intention in a sample of 388 community mental health providers. Emotional exhaustion was positively related to turnover intention, and transformational leadership was negatively related to both emotional exhaustion and turnover intention. Transformational leadership moderated the relationship between emotional exhaustion and turnover intention, indicating that having a transformational leader may buffer the effects of providers' emotional exhaustion on turnover intention. Investing in transformational leadership development for supervisors could reduce emotional exhaustion and turnover among public sector mental health providers. SN - 1573-2789 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/22052429/Transformational_leadership_moderates_the_relationship_between_emotional_exhaustion_and_turnover_intention_among_community_mental_health_providers_ L2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-011-9463-0 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -