| Title: |
Relationship between Empowering Leadership and Stress in a French University Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study Combining the Measurement of Perceived Stress and Salivary Cortisol |
| Authors: |
Cougot, Baptiste; Gillet, Nicolas; Moret, Leila; Gauvin, Jules; Caillet, Pascal; Fleury-Bahi, Ghozlane; Lesot, Johan; Ollierou, Florian; Armant, Anne; Peltier, Arthur; Fouquereau, Evelyne; Getz, Isaac; Bach-Ngohou, Kalyane; Tripodi, Dominique |
| Contributors: |
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes = Nantes University Hospital (CHU Nantes); Qualité de vie et Santé psychologique (QualiPsy); Université de Tours (UT); Institut universitaire de France (IUF); Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.); methodS in Patients-centered outcomes and HEalth ResEarch (SPHERE); Université de Tours (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Nantes Université - UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques (Nantes Univ - UFR Pharmacie); Nantes Université - pôle Santé; Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Santé; Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ); Intervention Formation Recherche en Santé Psychosociale et Santé au Travail (IGEIA); Nantes Université (Nantes Univ); Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL); Université d'Angers (UA)-Nantes Université - UFR Lettres et Langages (Nantes Univ - UFR LL); Nantes Université - pôle Humanités; Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Humanités; Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Pathology Nantes; Service de Santé au Travail de la Région Nantaise Nantes (SSTRN); Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP Europe); The Enteric Nervous System in gut and brain disorders U1235 (TENS); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Nantes Université - UFR de Médecine et des Techniques Médicales (Nantes Univ - UFR MEDECINE) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 0966-0429. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Wiley |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Université François-Rabelais de Tours: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology |
| Description: |
International audience ; Aim. We investigated the impact of empowering leadership on both perceived stress and salivary cortisol, a commonly utilized biological indicator for stress assessment. Background. Empowering leadership is gaining increasing interest in companies. However, the impact of empowering leadership on stress is still insufficiently explored, with conflicting findings within the literature on this topic. While certain studies indicate that empowering leadership reduces perceived stress, other studies have suggested that empowering leadership could be stressful. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional study using a questionnaire among a sample of 397 participants working in a French hospital. Participants’ salivary cortisol was assessed. All analyses exploring the relationships between empowering leadership, perceived stress, and salivary cortisol were performed using multiple imputation methods. Results. Empowering leadership could simultaneously increase and decrease perceived stress. Specifically, although the empowering leadership global factor showed a negative correlation with perceived stress, some specific empowering leadership behaviors were positively associated with perceived stress. However, salivary cortisol was positively related to perceived stress and strictly negatively related to empowering leadership. Furthermore, salivary cortisol could be explained by a significant interaction effect between perceived stress and empowering leadership, indicating that empowering leadership enables employees to cope with perceived stress. Conclusions. Although empowering leadership was an ambiguous antecedent of perceived stress, our findings suggested that empowering leadership was a protective factor against increased salivary cortisol. These results suggest that empowering leadership behaviors could prevent biological stress. Implications for Nursing Management. While empowering leadership showed a protective effect on salivary cortisol, it is essential for managers to adopt the full set of ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1155/2024/8839893 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-04486800; https://hal.science/hal-04486800v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-04486800v1/file/8839893.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/8839893 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.8C79C3A5 |
| Database: |
BASE |