Table 3.

Regression results for testing mediating role of emotional contagion.

Variables and statistic	EC as dependent variable	EWP as dependent variable
	Model 2	Model 1	Model 3
Constant	3.658***	3.835***	2.218**
Gender (L)	−0.129	0.002	0.059
Age (L)	−0.003	−0.050*	−0.048*
Tenure (L)	0.003	0.067*	0.066*
Education (L)	−0.025	0.198	0.209+
Job position (L)	0.138	0.565**	0.504**
Gender (E)	−0.129+	0.223	0.280*
Age (E)	−0.004	−0.036**	−0.035**
Tenure (E)	0.001	−0.016	−0.016
Education (E)	−0.012	0.138	0.143+
Job position (E)	0.078	0.468*	0.433*
LWP	0.108**	0.102	0.054
EC			0.442***
F	1.632	5.714	8.651
R2	0.049	0.152	0.228

LWP, Leader's work passion; L-EGCC, Leader–employee goal content congruence; EC, Emotional contagion; EWP, Employee's work passion.

^***p ≤ 0.001,

^**p ≤ 0.01,

^*p ≤ 0.05,

⁺p ≤ 0.1.