Obi Innocentina-Marie, Aaldering Hillie, Bollen Katalien, Euwema Martin Claes
Occupational & Organizational Psychology and Professional Learning, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 3;12:630978. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.630978. eCollection 2021.
This study investigates how female religious leaders nurture spiritual well-being in religious sisters. Specifically, we examined how servant leadership fosters spiritual well-being [Gifts and Fruits of the Spirit (GFSp)] through, respectively, the mediating role of team trust and reduced occurrence of team conflicts. Quantitative survey data were collected from 453 religious sisters (followers) within a Catholic Women Religious Institute in Nigeria. Using structural equation modeling, results showed that servant leadership is positively related to team trust and negatively related to team conflict. Further findings showed that servant leadership indirectly fosters spiritual well-being: Gifts of the Spirit (GSp), and Fruits of the Spirit (FSp), through the mediating role of team trust, however not through reduced team conflict. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
本研究调查了女性宗教领袖如何培养宗教姐妹的精神幸福感。具体而言，我们考察了仆人式领导如何分别通过团队信任的中介作用和减少团队冲突的发生来促进精神幸福感[圣灵的恩赐与果实（GFSp）]。从尼日利亚一个天主教女性宗教机构的453名宗教姐妹（追随者）那里收集了定量调查数据。使用结构方程模型，结果表明仆人式领导与团队信任呈正相关，与团队冲突呈负相关。进一步的研究结果表明，仆人式领导通过团队信任的中介作用间接促进精神幸福感：圣灵的恩赐（GSp）和圣灵的果实（FSp），但不是通过减少团队冲突来实现。文中讨论了理论和实践意义。
