AUTHOR=Qin Dong , Xu Yan , Li Chaoping , Meng Xue 

TITLE=How Servant Leadership Sparks Feedback-Seeking Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.748751

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.748751

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Drawing upon social information processing theory, we propose that moqi with supervisors mediates the relationship between perceived servant leadership and follower feedback-seeking behavior. Subordinates’ traditionality plays a moderating role in this process. Using a sample of 440 Chinese working adults, correlation analyses, mediation analysis, and moderated mediation analysis was performed through R and SPSS PROCESS Macro. The results revealed that servant leadership positively correlates with employees’ feedback-seeking behavior via moqi with supervisors. Moreover, these indirect effects of servant leadership were moderated by traditionality, such that servant leadership had weaker relations with feedback-seeking behavior when traditionality was higher (vs. lower). Theoretical and practical implications and limitations of the study, and suggestions for further study were discussed.