Non-Listening and Self Centered Leadership - Relationships to Socioeconomic Conditions and Employee Mental Health

作者：Theorell Tores^*; Nyberg Anna; Leineweber Constanze; Hanson Linda L Magnusson; Oxenstierna Gabriel; Westerlund Hugo

来源：PLos One, 2012, 7(9): e44119.

DOI：10.1371/journal.pone.0044119

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. %26lt;br%26gt;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: %26quot;Non-listening leadership%26quot; (one question: %26quot;Does your manager listen to you?%26quot; - four response categories), %26quot;Self centered leadership%26quot; (sum of three five-graded questions - %26quot;non-participating%26quot;, %26quot;asocial%26quot; and %26quot;loner%26quot;). The socioeconomic factors were education and income. Emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms were used as indicators of mental health. %26lt;br%26gt;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. %26quot;Self centered%26quot; as well as %26quot;non-listening%26quot; 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 %26quot;non-listening%26quot; leadership analyses, whereas predictions of depressive symptoms remained significant after these adjustments in the %26quot;self-centered leadership%26quot; analyses. %26lt;br%26gt;Conclusions: Our results show that the leadership variables are associated with socioeconomic status and employee mental health. %26quot;Non-listening%26quot; scores were more sensitive to societal change and more strongly related to socioeconomic factors and job conditions than %26quot;self-centered%26quot; scores.

• 出版日期2012-9-24