How authentic leadership influences employee proactivity: the sequential mediating effects of psychological empowerment and core self-evaluations and the moderating role of employee political skill

Frontiers of Business Research in China

Table 4 Total effect, direct effect, indirect effect of authentic leadership on proactive behavior

	Path	Effect	SE/Boot SE	t	p	LLCI	ULCI
Total effect		0.1428	0.0771	1.8514	0.0652	−0.0091	0.2947
Direct effect		0.0915	0.0800	1.1438	0.2538	−0.0660	0.2491
Indirect effect	Total	0.0513	0.0281			0.0051	0.1188
	AL → PE → PB	0.0334	0.0250			−0.0090	0.0922
	AL → CSE → PB	0.0102	0.0103			−0.0030	0.0412
	AL → PE → CSE → PB	0.0076	0.0057			0.0004	0.0251

Lower and higher conditions are 1 standard deviation above and below the mean. Bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals are derived from 10,000 replications. SE standard error, CI confidence interval, AL authentic leadership, PE psychological empowerment, CSE core self-evaluations, PB proactive behavior