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 relationships
Path coefficient
SE
t-value
Confidence interval
Conclusion
[LL, UL]
Direct paths
H1: SL -> JE
0.361
0.069
05.135
[0.246, 0.479]
Supported
H2: SL -> PCF
0.694
0.057
15.621
[0.609, 0.758]
Supported
H3: PCF -> PO
0.766
0.048
20.456
[0.698, 0.822]
Supported
H4: PO -> JE
0.513
0.023
06.813
[0.387, 0.634]
Supported
Sequential mediation path
H5: PSL -> PCF -> PO -> JE
0.272
0.011
05.452
[0.197, 0.359]
Supported
Quality criteria of the model (R-square adjusted)
Psychological contract fulfillment = 0.479
Psychological ownership = 0.585
Job 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%.