Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health.
BACKGROUND: The way in which leadership is experienced in different socioeconomic strata is of interest per se, as well as how it relates to employee mental health. METHODS: Three waves of SLOSH (Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health, a questionnaire survey on a sample of the Swedish wo...
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| author | Töres Theorell Anna Nyberg Constanze Leineweber Linda L Magnusson Hanson Gabriel Oxenstierna Hugo Westerlund |
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| description | BACKGROUND: The way in which leadership is experienced in different socioeconomic strata is of interest per se, as well as how it relates to employee mental health. METHODS: Three waves of SLOSH (Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health, a questionnaire survey on a sample of the Swedish working population) were used, 2006, 2008 and 2010 (n = 5141). The leadership variables were: "Non-listening leadership" (one question: "Does your manager listen to you?"--four response categories), "Self centered leadership" (sum of three five-graded questions--"non-participating", "asocial" and "loner"). The socioeconomic factors were education and income. Emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms were used as indicators of mental health. RESULTS: Non-listening leadership was associated with low income and low education whereas self-centered leadership showed a weaker relationship with education and no association at all with income. Both leadership variables were significantly associated with emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms. "Self centered" as well as "non-listening" leadership in 2006 significantly predicted employee depressive symptoms in 2008 after adjustment for demographic variables. These predictions became non-significant when adjustment was made for job conditions (demands and decision latitude) in the "non-listening" leadership analyses, whereas predictions of depressive symptoms remained significant after these adjustments in the "self-centered leadership" analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that the leadership variables are associated with socioeconomic status and employee mental health. "Non-listening" scores were more sensitive to societal change and more strongly related to socioeconomic factors and job conditions than "self-centered" scores. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab70f04ef9b040d482e68a8a7afbf31d2022-12-22T03:45:31ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0179e4411910.1371/journal.pone.0044119Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health.Töres TheorellAnna NybergConstanze LeineweberLinda L Magnusson HansonGabriel OxenstiernaHugo WesterlundBACKGROUND: The way in which leadership is experienced in different socioeconomic strata is of interest per se, as well as how it relates to employee mental health. METHODS: Three waves of SLOSH (Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health, a questionnaire survey on a sample of the Swedish working population) were used, 2006, 2008 and 2010 (n = 5141). The leadership variables were: "Non-listening leadership" (one question: "Does your manager listen to you?"--four response categories), "Self centered leadership" (sum of three five-graded questions--"non-participating", "asocial" and "loner"). The socioeconomic factors were education and income. Emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms were used as indicators of mental health. RESULTS: Non-listening leadership was associated with low income and low education whereas self-centered leadership showed a weaker relationship with education and no association at all with income. Both leadership variables were significantly associated with emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms. "Self centered" as well as "non-listening" leadership in 2006 significantly predicted employee depressive symptoms in 2008 after adjustment for demographic variables. These predictions became non-significant when adjustment was made for job conditions (demands and decision latitude) in the "non-listening" leadership analyses, whereas predictions of depressive symptoms remained significant after these adjustments in the "self-centered leadership" analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that the leadership variables are associated with socioeconomic status and employee mental health. "Non-listening" scores were more sensitive to societal change and more strongly related to socioeconomic factors and job conditions than "self-centered" scores.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3454397?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Töres Theorell Anna Nyberg Constanze Leineweber Linda L Magnusson Hanson Gabriel Oxenstierna Hugo Westerlund Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health. PLoS ONE |
| title | Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health. |
| title_full | Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health. |
| title_fullStr | Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health. |
| title_short | Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health. |
| title_sort | non listening and self centered leadership relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3454397?pdf=render |
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