David Timea, Shih Hsi-An
Organization and Human Resource Management, ESSCA School of Management, Budapest, Hungary.
Institute of International Business, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Mil Psychol. 2025;37(4):269-279. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2356497. Epub 2024 Jun 5.
Providing safety is a key function for leaders for those under their command in a military context, and research to date has focused on various aspects of leaders' personalities and leadership styles to investigate the outcomes for their followers. The present research aims to complement this view by adopting a follower-centric approach and exploring the individual and team-level effects of attachment and psychological safety. Drawing on attachment theory, we developed and tested a model that explicates how employees' attachment projections are mediated by psychological safety to influence adaptive behaviors and team performance positively. We collected multi-source survey data from a Navy department to test our model. Our findings suggest that attachment to leaders can indirectly enhance adaptive behaviors through individual psychological safety. This research underscores the critical role of attachment dynamics and resulting safety perceptions in shaping adaptive behaviors among military personnel, emphasizing their significance as social resources.
在军事背景下，为下属提供安全保障是领导者的一项关键职能，迄今为止的研究聚焦于领导者的个性和领导风格的各个方面，以调查其对下属的影响结果。本研究旨在通过采用以追随者为中心的方法，探索依恋和心理安全在个体和团队层面的影响，以补充这一观点。借鉴依恋理论，我们开发并测试了一个模型，该模型阐述了员工的依恋投射如何通过心理安全得到调节，从而对适应性行为和团队绩效产生积极影响。我们从一个海军部门收集了多源调查数据来测试我们的模型。我们的研究结果表明，对领导者的依恋可以通过个体心理安全间接增强适应性行为。这项研究强调了依恋动态及由此产生的安全认知在塑造军事人员适应性行为中的关键作用，凸显了它们作为社会资源的重要性。
