The Mechanism of Supervisors’ Ethical Leadership Influencing Postgraduate Students’ Creativity—A Study Based on Supervisor-Student Matching Questionnaire Survey

Abstract

Abstract:

Based on social learning theory and social exchange theory, this study explored the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions of supervisors’ ethical leadership on graduate students’ creativity through 223 supervisor-postgraduate student matched questionnaires. The results found that supervisors’ ethical leadership is significantly negatively correlated with “evasive hiding” and “playing dumb”, and is not related to “rationalized hiding”. Evasive hiding and playing dumb hiding mediate between supervisors’ ethical leadership and postgraduate students’ creativity. The “mastery climate” plays a moderating role between supervisors’ ethical leadership and evasive hiding, and it can strengthen the mediating effect of evasive hiding. Therefore, it is suggested that supervisors continuously improve their level of ethical leadership, and reduce postgraduate students’ evasive hiding playing dumb, to promote students’ creativity. In addition, supervisors should also strive to shape a positive and proactive mastery climate, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of ethical leadership.

Key words: supervisors’ ethical leadership, knowledge hiding, postgraduate students’ creativity, mastery climate

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Liu Hui, Wang Guanghui. The Mechanism of Supervisors’ Ethical Leadership Influencing Postgraduate Students’ Creativity—A Study Based on Supervisor-Student Matching Questionnaire Survey[J]. Education Science, 2024, 40(2): 90-96.

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变量		中介变量
变量		推托隐藏	装傻隐藏	合理隐藏	研究生创新能力
模型1
自变量
	导师道德领导	-0.381***	-0.295**	-0.120	0.193**
中介变量
	推托隐藏				-0.202**
	装傻隐藏				-0.218***
	合理隐藏				0.005
模型2
自变量
	导师道德领导	-0.356***	-0.309**
调节变量
	掌控氛围	-0.080	-0.001
交互项
	导师道德领导×掌控氛围	-0.189*	-0.140
Bootstrapping中介效应检验
间接效应		B	SE	95%CI
	导师道德领导→推托隐藏→研究生创新能力	0.065	0.029	[0.020, 0.137]
	导师道德领导→装傻隐藏→研究生创新能力	0.057	0.026	[0.018, 0.121]
有调节的中介效应检验
掌控氛围		间接效应	SE	95%CI
	低 (M-SD)	0.034	0.023	[0.002, 0.096]
	中 (M)	0.060	0.028	[0.018, 0.134]
	高 (M+SD)	0.087	0.041	[0.025, 0.194]