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| Mechanism of the Relationship between Abusive Supervision and Student Self-efficacy:
An Examination in the Graduate Educational Setting |
| LIU Jun,IAO Zhenyu,GAO Zhonghua |
| 1. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China; 2. National University of Singapore,
Singapore
City, Singapore; 3. Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China |
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Abstract The present study examines the relationship between abusive supervision and self-efficacy in the Chinese graduate educational setting. We propose that advisor-student exchange mediates the relationship between abusive supervision and self-efficacy and team member support moderates the process that abusive supervision exerts negative influence on advisor-student exchange. Two hundred and twenty-six graduate students of a university in Beijing were sampled. Empirical results show that in Chinese graduate educational context, abusive supervision from the advisor has negative influence on graduate students’ self-efficacy, and advisor-student exchange in advising relationship partially mediates the negative relationship. Team member support moderates the negative association between abusive supervision and advisor-student exchange and team member support exacerbates this negative effect.
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Received: 05 June 2012
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2013, Vol. 10 
