They can handle it, they are leaders: a look into organizational leaders’ mental health

Octavia, Josephine, Prihadi, Kususanto Ditto, Yeoh, Hong Chun and Purwaningtyas, Endah Kurniawati (2022) They can handle it, they are leaders: a look into organizational leaders’ mental health. International Journal of Public Health Science, 11 (4). pp. 1439-1447. ISSN 26204126

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Abstract

Few studies have examined the mental health of people in a leadership position. Most of the time, mental health-related policies were created for the non-leaders to cope with the perceived pressure from their leaders. Nevertheless, the mental health of organizational leaders itself might be at stake due to the leadership ‘acts’ they have to perform. This current study aimed to investigate the moderating effect of social support and self-compassion on the relationship between organizational leaders’ emotional labor and their psychological well-being. There were mid-level working executives in leadership positions provided data on their emotional labor, social support, self-compassion, and psychological well-being. It was predicted that social support and self-compassion will both moderate the relationship between organizational leaders’ emotional labor and their psychological well-being. The results indicated that surface acting is correlated with psychological wellbeing while deep acting is not. Social support and self-compassion do not moderate the relationship between emotional labor and psychological wellbeing. However, age is significantly correlated with psychological wellbeing, social support, and self-compassion, indicating its importance in leaders.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	leaders’ emotional labor; leaders’ wellbeing; self-compassion; social support
Subjects:	17 PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES > 1701 Psychology > 170103 Educational Psychology 17 PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES > 1701 Psychology > 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology 17 PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES > 1701 Psychology > 170107 Industrial and Organisational Psychology 17 PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES > 1701 Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Psychology
Depositing User:	Endah Kurniawati PurwaningTyas
Date Deposited:	30 May 2023 09:07

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