Abstract：Based on the cognitive-affective processing system framework, this study analyzes the impact of subordinates’ prohibitive voice on leaders’abusive supervision. A paired survey of 232 department leaders and 1 249 employees was conducted to propose a serial moderated mediation model and to examine the mediating role of leaders’ perceived hierarchical threat and workplace anxiety, as well as the moderating role of leaders’ and subordinates’ traditionality. The results show that subordinates’ prohibitive voice positively influences abusive supervision via leaders’ perceived hierarchical threat or workplace anxiety. Leaders’ perceived hierarchical threat and workplace anxiety play a serial mediating role between subordinates’ prohibitive voice and abusive supervision. Additionally, leaders’ traditionality moderates the relationship between subordinates’ prohibitive voice and leaders’ perceived hierarchical threat, while subordinates’ traditionality moderates the relationship between leaders’ workplace anxiety and abusive supervision. Furthermore, leaders’ and subordinates’ traditionality moderate the serial mediation effects of leaders’ perceived hierarchical threat and workplace anxiety between subordinates’ prohibitive voice and abusive supervision.
