How Bottom-Line Mentality Leads to Abusive Supervision? Investigating the Mediating Effects of Anxiety

Figures & data

Figure 1 Conceptual Model.

Table 1 Model Fit Results for Confirmatory Factor Analyses

Models	χ^2	Df	CFI	TLI	RMSEA	SRMRwithin	SRMRbetween
1. Four-factors: BLM, LA, AS, RC	74.91	41	0.99	0.98	0.05	0.03	0.00
2. Three-factors: BLM+AS, LA, RC	856.66	43	0.69	0.58	0.22	0.24	0.00
3. Three-factors: BLM+RC, LA, AS	784.95	43	0.72	0.62	0.21	0.21	0.00
4. Three-factors: BLM, LA, AS+RC	755.95	43	0.73	0.63	0.21	0.21	0.00
5. Two-factor: BLM+RC+AS, LA	2007.19	44	0.25	0.02	0.34	0.29	0.00
6. Sing-factor: BLM+RC+AS+LA	2811.70	91	0.24	0.11	0.26	0.25	0.00

Note: N = 91 teams.

Abbreviations: AS, abusive supervision; BLM, bottom-line mentality; LA, leader anxiety; RC, rules climate; CFI, comparative fit index; TLI, Tucker-Lewis index; RMSEA, root mean squared error of approximation; SRMR, standardized root mean-square residual.

Table 2 Factor Loading and Convergent Validity

Variables	Order	Loading Factor	CR	AVE	Variables	Order	Loading Factor	CR	AVE
Bottom-line mentality	Q1	0.89	0.95	0.82	Abusive supervision	Q12	0.69	0.97	0.66
	Q2	0.93				Q13	0.78
	Q3	0.93				Q14	0.85
	Q4	0.87				Q15	0.86
Rules climate	Q5	0.86	0.93	0.76		Q16	0.83
	Q6	0.91				Q17	0.87
	Q7	0.87				Q18	0.83
	Q8	0.85				Q19	0.80
Anxiety	Q9	0.80	0.88	0.71		Q20	0.74
	Q10	0.89				Q21	0.82
	Q11	0.83				Q22	0.85
						Q23	0.81
						Q24	0.84
						Q25	0.81
						Q26	0.80

Abbreviations: CR, composite reliability; AVE, average variance extraction.

Table 3 Means, Standard Deviations (SD), and Correlations Among Study Variables

Variable	M	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Leader BLM	2.67	0.73	(0.93)
2. Leader anxiety	1.75	0.62	0.26*	(0.81)
3. Rules climate	3.91	0.58	0.08	–0.09	(0.90)
4. Abusive supervision	1.61	0.51	0.28**	0.31**	–0.16	(0.96)
5. Leader gender	0.65	0.48	–0.00	0.04	0.02	–0.13	—
6. Leader age	40.03	7.35	–0.07	–0.03	0.05	0.03	0.13	—
7. Leader education	2.80	0.70	–0.10	–0.10	0.10	–0.17	0.06	–0.15

Notes: N = 91 teams. Cronbach’s alphas are reported along the diagonal. All correlations were calculated at the group level. *p < 0.05. **p < 0.01.

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviations; BLM, bottom-line mentality.

Table 4 Regression Results for Mediation

Variables	Leader Anxiety		Abusive Supervision
	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4		Model 5
	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE
Intercept	1.45**	0.54	1.33**	0.45	1.03*	0.45	1.45**	0.53	1.50**	0.52
Leader gender	0.06	0.13	–0.13	0.11	–0.15	0.11	–0.15	0.11	–0.14	0.10
Leader age	–0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
Leader education	–0.07	0.09	–0.09	0.08	–0.08	0.07	–0.07	0.07	–0.04	0.07
Leader BLM	0.21*	0.09	0.19**	0.07	0.15	0.07	0.16*	0.07	0.17*	0.07
Leader anxiety					0.21*	0.09	0.20*	0.09	0.15	0.09
Rules climate							–0.13	0.09	–0.16	0.09
XW									–0.38*	0.15
R^2	0.08		0.12		0.18		0.20		0.25
ΔR^2					0.06*		0.02		0.06*

Notes: N = 91 teams. *p < 0.05. **p < 0.01.

Abbreviations: BLM, bottom-line mentality; XW, Leader anxiety*Rules climate; β unstandardized regression coefficients; SE, standard errors of the regression coefficient.

Figure 2 The Interactive Effect of Leader Anxiety and Rules Climate on Abusive Supervision.