Help yourself: the mechanisms through which a self-leadership intervention influences strain.
This research reports on two field studies which demonstrate that self-leadership training decreases strain via increases in self-efficacy and positive affect. The first, an experimental study, found that strain was reduced in the randomly assigned training group, but not in the control group. The second was a longitudinal study and supported the hypotheses that self-efficacy and positive affect mediated the effect of self-leadership training on strain. Our findings extend both self-leadership and stress management literatures by providing a theoretical framework within which the effects of self-leadership on strain can be understood. Practically speaking, our findings suggest that self-leadership training offers an individual-level preventive approach to stress management.
University of Western Australia Business School, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia. kerrie.unsworth@uwa.edu.au
Kerrie L
KL
Unsworth
Claire M
CM
Mason
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology