Cougot Baptiste, Gillet Nicolas, Moret Leïla, Gauvin Jules, Caillet Pascal, Fleury-Bahi Ghozlane, Lesot Johan, Ollierou Florian, Armant Anne, Peltier Arthur, Fouquereau Evelyne, Getz Isaac, Bach-Ngohou Kalyane, Tripodi Dominique
Nantes University, Nantes University Hospital, Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, Nantes F-44000, France.
Nantes University, Nantes University Hospital, Department of Public Health, Nantes F-44000, France.
J Nurs Manag. 2024 Jan 31;2024:8839893. doi: 10.1155/2024/8839893. eCollection 2024.
We investigated the impact of empowering leadership on both perceived stress and salivary cortisol, a commonly utilized biological indicator for stress assessment.
Empowering leadership is gaining increasing interest in companies. However, the impact of empowering leadership on stress is still insufficiently explored, with conflicting findings within the literature on this topic. While certain studies indicate that empowering leadership reduces perceived stress, other studies have suggested that empowering leadership could be stressful.
We conducted a cross-sectional study using a questionnaire among a sample of 397 participants working in a French hospital. Participants' salivary cortisol was assessed. All analyses exploring the relationships between empowering leadership, perceived stress, and salivary cortisol were performed using multiple imputation methods.
Empowering leadership could simultaneously increase and decrease perceived stress. Specifically, although the empowering leadership global factor showed a negative correlation with perceived stress, some specific empowering leadership behaviors were positively associated with perceived stress. However, salivary cortisol was positively related to perceived stress and strictly negatively related to empowering leadership. Furthermore, salivary cortisol could be explained by a significant interaction effect between perceived stress and empowering leadership, indicating that empowering leadership enables employees to cope with perceived stress.
Although empowering leadership was an ambiguous antecedent of perceived stress, our findings suggested that empowering leadership was a protective factor against increased salivary cortisol. These results suggest that empowering leadership behaviors could prevent biological stress. . While empowering leadership showed a protective effect on salivary cortisol, it is essential for managers to adopt the full set of empowering leadership practices to guarantee protective effects on perceived stress. This trial is registered with NCT04010773.
我们研究了赋能型领导对感知压力和唾液皮质醇（一种常用于压力评估的生物指标）的影响。
赋能型领导在企业中越来越受到关注。然而，赋能型领导对压力的影响仍未得到充分探索，该主题的文献研究结果相互矛盾。虽然某些研究表明赋能型领导可降低感知压力，但其他研究则表明赋能型领导可能会带来压力。
我们对法国一家医院的397名在职参与者进行了问卷调查，开展了一项横断面研究。对参与者的唾液皮质醇进行了评估。所有探索赋能型领导、感知压力和唾液皮质醇之间关系的分析均采用多重插补法。
赋能型领导可能同时增加和降低感知压力。具体而言，虽然赋能型领导全局因素与感知压力呈负相关，但一些特定的赋能型领导行为与感知压力呈正相关。然而，唾液皮质醇与感知压力呈正相关，与赋能型领导呈严格负相关。此外，唾液皮质醇可由感知压力和赋能型领导之间的显著交互作用来解释，这表明赋能型领导使员工能够应对感知压力。
虽然赋能型领导是感知压力的一个模糊前因，但我们的研究结果表明，赋能型领导是防止唾液皮质醇升高的一个保护因素。这些结果表明，赋能型领导行为可以预防生物性压力。虽然赋能型领导对唾液皮质醇有保护作用，但管理者必须采用全套赋能型领导实践，以确保对感知压力有保护作用。本试验已在ClinicalTrials.gov上注册，注册号为NCT04010773。
