A study of the effect of perceived organizational support on the relationship between narcissism and job-related attitudes of Korean employees

Figures & data

Table 1. Sample profile

Variables	Items	Percentages
Age	20’s	24.6
	30’s	27.4
	40’s	22.4
	50’s	25.6
Gender	Male	46.3
	Female	53.7
Industry of their company	Manufacturing	28.8
	Construction	10.2
	Service	32.2
	Public agency	5.6
	Wholesale/retail	8.1
	Others	15.1
Number of employees in their company	Less than 10	20.7
	11–50	29.8
	51–300	29.5
	301–1000	7.1
	More than 1001	12.9
Tenure	Less than 5 years	53.3
	6–9 years	23.5
	10–14 years	12.3
	15–19 years	4.2
	More than 20 years	6.7
Level of their education	Middle school	0.7
	High school	15.8
	Community college	20.8
	Undergraduate school	52.9
	Graduate school	9.8
Position	Staff	44.6
	Assistant manager	18.2
	Manager	15.4
	Senior manager	13.3
	Director	6.3
	Others	2.1
Marital Status	Married	54.7
	Single	45.3

Table 2. The measurements of variables

Variables	Sub-factors	Item number	References
Narcissism	–	16	Ames, Rose, and Anderson (2006)
Job satisfaction	Work	3	Smith et al. (1969)
	Pay	3
	Promotion	3
	Colleague	3
	Supervision	3
Organizational commitment	Affective commitment	8	Allen & Meyer(1990)
	Continuance commitment	8
	Normative commitment	8
Perceived organizational support	–	9	Wayne, Shore, and Liden (1987)

Table 3. Variables’ correlation coefficient and other statistics

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Narcissism	1
Work	−.123**	1
Pay	.022	−.011	1
Promotion	−.101	−.032	.000	1
Colleague	−.121*	.028	.018	.005	1
Supervision	−.021*	−.019	.000	.000	−.052	1
Affective	−.031**	.221**	.043	−.062	.130	.123*	1
Continuance	−.015	.176**	.021	.122*	.076	.143*	.021	1
Normative	−.115	.120	.209	.109	.121	.132	.043	.021	1
POS	−.399	.012**	.039**	.104**	.105**	.054**	.083**	.113**	.001**

*p < .05, **p < .01

Table 4. Analysis

	Job satisfaction										Organizational commitment
	Work		Pay		Promotion		Colleague		Supervision		Affective		Continuance		Normative
	model 1	model 2	model 1	model 2	model 1	model 2	model 1	model 2	model 1	model 2	model 1	model 2	model 1	model 2	model 1	model 2
Sex	−.211*	−.195	−.024	−.023	.045	.039	−.032	−.035	.061	.053	−.081	−.075	.061	.055	.142	.112
Age	.161	.134	.049	.042	.043	.037	.073	.058	−.039	−.024	.128**	.119**	.137	.123	.095	.087
Education level	.092	.081	.062	.059	−.032	−.024	.051	.039	.043	.051	.091	.081	.016	.021	.022	.017
Narcissism	−.246**	−.216**	.052	.047	.068	.071	−.206**	−.199**	−.382**	−.301**	−.201**	−.199**	.012	.010	.021	.018
POS		.041**		.025**		.046**		.049**		.112**		.121**		.041**		.028**
Narcissism *POS		.113*		.009		.116		.098*		.101		.120*		.064		.014
Adj. R^2	.115	.135	.008	.108	.009	.107	.109	.131	.111	.112	.114	.133	.011	.106	.010	.105
F	7.919**	9.982**	1.374	7.224**	1.514	7.014**	7.424**	9.792**	7.601**	7.711	7.809**	9.885	1.717	6.891	1.624	6.771

*p < .05, **p < .01

Figure 1. The moderating effect of POS.

Ames, D. R., Rose, P., & Anderson, C. P. (2006). The NPI-16 as a short measure of narcissism. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 440–450. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2005.03.002

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