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 5 Regression results testing the moderating effect of follower political skill

Variable	Proactive behavior
Variable	M₁	M₂	M₃	M₄
Leader-member	−0.08	−0.09	−0.09	− 0.10
Company	−0.19**	− 0.19**	−0.19**	− 0.21**
Follower age	−0.05	− 0.07	−0.07	− 0.08
Follower gender	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.08
Working time with supervisor	0.00	−0.01	−0.01	− 0.03
Working time in organization	0.20*	0.21*	0.21*	0.23*
Interaction frequency	−0.01	− 0.04	−0.04	− 0.05
Core self-evaluations		0.14^*	0.14^*	0.16^*
Follower political skill			−0.01	0.00
Z _{Core self-evaluations}*Z _{Follower political skill}				0.15*
R ²	0.08	0.10	0.10	0.12
F	3.32^**	3.58^**	3.17^**	3.51^**
∆R ²	0.08	0.02	0.00	0.02
∆F	3.32^**	5.04^*	0.02	5.97^*