Gratitude, social intelligence, and leadership among university teachers: mediation and moderation analysis

Abstract

<jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title> <jats:p>The purpose of this study is to investigate the linkage between gratitude and leadership among university teachers. It also tended to examine mediating and moderating effect of social intelligence amidst the relationship between gratitude and leadership. As social intelligence is a multi-dimensional concept, this paper explored mediating and moderating effect of three dimensions of social intelligence, i.e. social awareness, social skills and social information processing.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title> <jats:p>Mediation effect was examined with help of Baron and Kenny’s (1986) technique, Sobel test and bootstrapping estimates. Significance of interaction between independent variable (gratitude) and moderator (social intelligence) was investigated for moderation analysis.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title> <jats:p>The findings reported partial mediating effect of all three dimensions of social intelligence. No significant moderation effect was observed.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title> <jats:p>This is one of the pioneer studies that explored interrelationship between gratitude, social intelligence and leadership among Indian University teachers.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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“…Marlowe ((1986), cited by Garg et al, 2020), presents SI as the ability to understand the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of ourselves and others in specific social circumstances. Based on our literature review, three dimensions of SI are adopted and analyzed: social awareness (SA), which helps to understand situations appropriately (Goleman, 2006); social skills (SS), which promotes interaction with others (Agran et al, 2016); and social information processing (SIP), which is relevant to the cognitive and behavioral process of individual responses (Garg et al, 2020). The third variable is emotional intelligence (EMO), related to the perception of existent elements to understand meanings and eventual future evolution (Thatcher, 2014).…”