What question did this study set out to answer?

To investigate the interaction between mindfulness and supervisor verbal abuse, and its effect on self-discrepancy and employee behaviors.

March 12, 2026The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association0 citationsOpen Access

Mindfulness enhances the psychological benefits of respectful supervision: A moderated mediation model

XCXin-Yu Chen WWW. S. Wang CKChien-Chih Kuo

Key Points

To investigate the interaction between mindfulness and supervisor verbal abuse, and its effect on self-discrepancy and employee behaviors.
Analyzed the relationship between supervisor verbal abuse and self-discrepancy.
Assessed how mindfulness moderates this relationship.
Examined the impact of self-discrepancy on job withdrawal and organizational citizenship behavior.
Mindfulness reduces the negative effects of supervisor verbal abuse on self-discrepancy.
Higher self-discrepancy leads to increased job withdrawal.
Organizational citizenship behavior is negatively impacted by higher self-discrepancy.

Abstract

Supervisor verbal abuse (SVA) can cause employees' selfdiscrepancy (SD) and reduce engagement.While mindfulness is often viewed as a stress buffer (Kabat-Zinn, 2003), its influence on responses to interpersonal dynamics is unclear.This study examines how mindfulness interacts with SVA to predict SD, and how SD, in turn, affects job withdrawal (JW) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB).

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