Volume 30, Issue 2 pp. 413-420

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Relationship between nursing mentorship and transformational leadership of mentor: A cross-sectional study

Zhenxing Gong PhD,

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Zhenxing Gong PhD

Associate Professor in Liaocheng Universtiy, Honorary Fellow in University of Wisconsin-Madison

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School of Business, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China

Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Zhenxing Gong, School of Business, Liaocheng University, No. 1 Hunan Road, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng 252000, China.

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Miaomiao Li PhD,

Miaomiao Li PhD

Lecture

School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing, China

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Zhenxing Gong PhD,

Corresponding Author

Zhenxing Gong PhD

Associate Professor in Liaocheng Universtiy, Honorary Fellow in University of Wisconsin-Madison

[email protected]

orcid.org/0000-0002-2781-7577

School of Business, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China

Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Correspondence

Zhenxing Gong, School of Business, Liaocheng University, No. 1 Hunan Road, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng 252000, China.

Email: [email protected]

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Miaomiao Li PhD,

Miaomiao Li PhD

Lecture

School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing, China

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First published: 19 November 2021

https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13519

Citations: 9

Funding information: China Scholarship Council, Grant/Award Number: 201908370108; Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Research youth fund project of China, Grant/Award Number: 18YJC630038; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 71801120, 72002016

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Abstract

Aim

The purpose of this research was to explore nurses' mentorship, mentors' basic psychological needs satisfaction and transformational leadership. Moreover, this study evaluated the moderating role of a protégé's mindfulness.

Background

Previous research had only focused on the benefits that protégés reaped from the mentoring relationship, neglected the mentor's benefits.

Method

We conducted an analysis of a cross-sectional sample comprising 366 frontline nurses in China. Descriptive, correlation and regression analyses were conducted using SPSS 22.0. Mediating, moderating and conditional process analyses were conducted using Process Macro 3.3.

Results

Mentorship is associated with mentors' transformational leadership through the satisfaction of their basic psychological needs (β = .13, 95% confidence interval [CI]: [0.05, 0.23]). The indirect association of mentorship and transformational leadership is stronger for protégés with low mindfulness levels (β = −.05, 95% CI: [−0.08, −0.02]).

Conclusion

The establishment of healthy associations between mentors and protégés facilitates the fulfilment of the mentors' basic psychological needs, enhancing the former's transformational leadership, especially for protégés with low mindfulness levels.

Implications for Nursing Management

Mentors should provide more meaningful knowledge about the organisation and protégés' career path, obtain information to help tailor the advice and put more energy into building trust-based relationships with protégés.

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Data are available on request from the authors.

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