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Does Self-Care Make You a Better Leader? A Multisource Study Linking Leader Self-Care to Health-Oriented Leadership, Employee Self-Care, and Health.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 05 31; 19(11)IJ

Abstract

Leadership plays an important role in employee well-being. In light of a growing research interest in leaders' resources as determinants of healthy leadership, it is not yet clear how leaders' behavior regarding their own health (self-care) may trickle down to employees. Drawing on Conservation of Resources Theory and the model of Health-Oriented Leadership, this study tests two mechanisms through which employees may benefit from self-caring leaders: (a) through staff care, that is, concern for their employees' health (improved leadership hypothesis); and (b) through a direct relationship between leaders' and employees' self-care (role-modeling hypothesis). In turn, both staff care and employee self-care would relate positively to employee health. Multilevel path models based on a sample of N = 46 supervisors and 437 employees revealed that leader self-care was positively related to leader-rated staff care at Level 2, which was positively related to employee-rated staff care at Level 1. In turn, employee-rated staff care was positively related to employee health. The findings support the improved leadership hypothesis and underline the importance of leader self-care as a determinant of healthy leadership.

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Klug K
Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
Felfe J
Department of Work, Organizational and Business Psychology, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, 22043 Hamburg, Germany.
Krick A
Department of Work, Organizational and Business Psychology, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, 22043 Hamburg, Germany.

MeSH

HumansLeadershipMultilevel AnalysisSelf Care

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

35682319

Citation

Klug, Katharina, et al. "Does Self-Care Make You a Better Leader? a Multisource Study Linking Leader Self-Care to Health-Oriented Leadership, Employee Self-Care, and Health." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 11, 2022.
Klug K, Felfe J, Krick A. Does Self-Care Make You a Better Leader? A Multisource Study Linking Leader Self-Care to Health-Oriented Leadership, Employee Self-Care, and Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(11).
Klug, K., Felfe, J., & Krick, A. (2022). Does Self-Care Make You a Better Leader? A Multisource Study Linking Leader Self-Care to Health-Oriented Leadership, Employee Self-Care, and Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116733
Klug K, Felfe J, Krick A. Does Self-Care Make You a Better Leader? a Multisource Study Linking Leader Self-Care to Health-Oriented Leadership, Employee Self-Care, and Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 05 31;19(11) PubMed PMID: 35682319.
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