“…Models 5 and 6: proximal-distal mediator models .-In the two models, one mediator aff ects the other in a serial rather than a parallel relation ( Preacher & Hayes, 2008 ;Hayes, 2012 ). Leadership support for change commitment and job satisfaction has a positive eff ect because of the emotional attachments (aff ective change commitment), value of long-term relationships (continuance change commitment), and the sense of obligation or duty (normative change commitment) for the common benefi t of the organization ( Herscovitch & Meyer, 2002 ;Soumyaja, Kamalanabhan, & Bhattacharyya, 2011 ). Some studies examined the infl uence of leadership on change commitment and the infl uence of job satisfaction on cooperative confl ict resolution; see Yang's (2011b ) quantitative measure (β = .48, R 2 = .23, p < .01).…”