Research Article

How Does Servant Leadership Nurture Nurses’ Job Embeddedness? Uncovering Sequential Mediation of Psychological Contract Fulfillment and Psychological Ownership

Table 4

Evaluation of the structural model.

Hypothesized relationshipsPath coefficientSEt-valueConfidence intervalConclusion
[LL, UL]

Direct paths
H1: SL -> JE0.3610.06905.135[0.246, 0.479]Supported
H2: SL -> PCF0.6940.05715.621[0.609, 0.758]Supported
H3: PCF -> PO0.7660.04820.456[0.698, 0.822]Supported
H4: PO -> JE0.5130.02306.813[0.387, 0.634]Supported

Sequential mediation path
H5: PSL -> PCF -> PO -> JE0.2720.01105.452[0.197, 0.359]Supported

Quality criteria of the model (R-square adjusted)
Psychological contract fulfillment = 0.479Psychological ownership = 0.585Job embeddedness = 0.646

p < 0.05; LL = lower limit; UL = upper limit; SE = standard error. The confidence intervals and t-values were obtained by 5000 bootstraps run at two-tailed significance at 5%.