ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Department-based need-supportive leadership and affective job satisfaction among Chinese university teachers: a cross-sectional serial mediation analysis of work-related basic psychological need satisfaction and work motivation.
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Background: Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), we examined whether department-based need-supportive leadership, conceptualized as an SDT-based leadership behavior construct, is associated with affective job satisfaction among Chinese university teachers and whether work-related basic psychological need satisfaction and work motivation statistically account for this association through independent and serial indirect pathways. Methods: We surveyed in-service Chinese university teachers ( Results: Department-based need-supportive leadership was positively associated with affective job satisfaction ( Conclusion: Department-based need-supportive leadership showed a positive association with teachers' affective job satisfaction that was partially accounted for by indirect effect estimates via work-related basic psychological need satisfaction and work motivation. Given the cross-sectional, self-report design, findings should be interpreted as associations and indirect effect estimates rather than evidence of temporal ordering or causal mechanisms.
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