Clarke James J, Haslam S Alexander, Sharman Leah S, Guerrini Briana, Holmes Kirsten, Talbot Rebecca, Wild James, McEvoy Peter M
Curtin School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
J Appl Gerontol. 2025 May;44(5):815-824. doi: 10.1177/07334648241289020. Epub 2024 Sep 30.
The impact of leadership on members' mental health outcomes in community-based mutual-aid organizations such as Men's Shed is unknown. We analyzed (a) whether identity leadership is associated with Shed members' mental health, and (b) whether these links are mediated by psychological safety, social network quality, and social identity. Path analysis on data collected from 162 Australian Men's Shed members revealed statistically significant associations between identity leadership and each mechanism, and our model accounted for significant variance in mental health outcomes (14%-24%, s < .001). Only social network quality and psychological safety were associated with unique variance in mental health outcomes. All indirect effects via social network quality and psychological safety were significant. These findings suggest the proposed mechanisms explain the relationship between identity leadership mental health outcomes in mutual-aid organizations such as Men's Sheds.
领导力对诸如男子工棚这类社区互助组织成员心理健康结果的影响尚不清楚。我们分析了：（a）身份认同型领导是否与男子工棚成员的心理健康相关；（b）这些联系是否由心理安全感、社交网络质量和社会认同所介导。对从162名澳大利亚男子工棚成员收集的数据进行的路径分析显示，身份认同型领导与每种机制之间存在统计学上的显著关联，且我们的模型解释了心理健康结果中的显著变异（14%-24%，s<.001）。只有社交网络质量和心理安全感与心理健康结果中的独特变异相关。通过社交网络质量和心理安全感产生的所有间接效应均显著。这些发现表明，所提出的机制解释了身份认同型领导与诸如男子工棚这类互助组织心理健康结果之间关系。
