Effects of Paternalistic Leadership on Quality of Life of Grassroots Officials in China: Mediation Effects of Burnout
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Effects of Paternalistic Leadership on Quality of Life of Grassroots Officials in China: Mediation Effects of Burnout Qing Huang 1 & Huaxing Liu 1
& Chengya
Chu 1
Received: 30 March 2020 / Accepted: 25 August 2020/ # The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract This study examined the importance of three dimensions (authoritarian leadership, benevolent leadership, and moral leadership) of paternalistic leadership for the quality of life of grassroots officials in Shandong Province, China, with burnout as the mediation factor. In 2019, a cross-sectional survey was conducted of 2064 grassroots officials from 106 towns or sub-districts in Shandong. We used the scale developed for measuring paternalistic leadership. Burnout was measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS), and the quality of life was measured by the abbreviated version of World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BRIEF). A structured equation model was implemented in AMOS 21 to examine the contribution of paternalistic leadership (PL) to the quality of life, and the potential mediation of these relationships by burnout. We found that authoritarian leadership (AL) has indirect and negative effects on the quality of life mediated by burnout. Benevolent leadership (BL) was found to be positively and directly associated with the quality of life. Meanwhile, burnout had a partial mediation effect in the relation between moral leadership (ML) and the quality of life. In addition, the level of burnout had a negative and significant influence on the quality of life. The findings showed the significance of PL when considering the effect of burnout on the quality of life of the grassroots officials. We conclude that to enhance their quality of life, leadership style should incline less towards authoritarian styles and more towards benevolent and moral ones. Keywords Paternalistic leadership . Quality of life . Burnout . Grassroots officials
* Huaxing Liu [email protected]
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School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, No. 72 Bin hai Road, Jimo District, Qingdao 266237, China
Q. Huang et al.
Introduction Quality of life refers to the overall evaluation of various aspects of life. It has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the “individual’s perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live, and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns.” (WHOQOL Group 1994). Quality of life is widely used to evaluate the status of people’s lives in terms of both subjective and objective aspects (Chipuer and Bramston 2003). A large number of studies have investigated the quality of life, but most of them have focused on ordinary citizens, and only a few on special groups, such as students, patients, earthquake survivors, and rural migrant workers (Zhang et al. 2009; Cui and Han 2019; Purton et al. 2019; Ghazinour et al. 2004). Scanty attention has b
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