ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
From self-care to motivation: health-oriented leadership and basic psychological need satisfaction at work.
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Leadership research increasingly emphasizes the role of health-oriented leadership (HoL) for employee well-being and motivation, yet the motivational relevance of leaders' own self-care remains insufficiently understood. Addressing this gap, the present study integrates the HoL framework with self-determination theory (SDT) to examine how leader self-care relates to employees' basic psychological need satisfaction and intrinsic motivation. Building on SDT, self-care is conceptualized as a form of health-related self-regulation that supports the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The study proposes a theoretically ordered model in which leader self-care is associated with staff-care, employee self-care, need satisfaction, and intrinsic motivation, thereby extending prior research that has primarily focused on leaders' health-supportive behavior toward employees. Data were collected from 122 employees in Germany using a cross-sectional online survey. Regression analyses showed that leader self-care was a strong and significant predictor of staff-care (
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