Table 3.
Structural models of the direct relations between the predictors (Despotic leadership and Laissez-Faire leadership), mediators (Job Insecurity and Conspiracy Beliefs), and criteria (Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intentions)
| Structural model with all relations | Final structural model | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | SE | β | p | B | SE | β | p | |
| Despotic leadership → job insecurity | .23 | .09 | .12 | .01 | .25 | .09 | .24 | <.01 |
| Despotic leadership → conspiracy beliefs | .44 | .07 | .56 | <.01 | .43 | .07 | .54 | <.01 |
| Despotic leadership → Org. commitment | .02 | .10 | .03 | .82 | – | |||
| Despotic leadership → turnover intentions | .12 | .13 | .10 | .37 | – | |||
| Laissez-faire → job insecurity | .86 | .12 | .68 | <.01 | .84 | .12 | .68 | <.01 |
| Laissez-faire → conspiracy beliefs | −.05 | .14 | −.06 | .70 | – | |||
| Laissez-faire → org. commitment | .25 | .17 | .28 | .15 | .20 | .09 | .23 | .03 |
| Laissez-faire → turnover intentions | .18 | .23 | .12 | .44 | – | |||
| Job insecurity → conspiracy Beliefs | .23 | .11 | .30 | .05 | .20 | .07 | .26 | <.01 |
| Job insecurity → org. commitment | −.06 | .15 | −.09 | .66 | – | |||
| Job insecurity → turnover intentions | .49 | .19 | .41 | .01 | .76 | .08 | .62 | <.01 |
| Conspiracy beliefs → org. commitment | −.40 | .12 | −.43 | <.01 | −.41 | .10 | −.44 | <.01 |
| Conspiracy beliefs → turnover intentions | .07 | .16 | .04 | .68 | – | |||
| Org. commitment → turnover intentions | −.68 | .12 | −.40 | <.01 | −.71 | .11 | −.42 | <.01 |