Frontiers of Business Research in China

Table 1 Descriptive statistics and correlations

From: Chinese employees’ leadership preferences and the relationship with power distance orientation and core self-evaluation

		Mean	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	Transformational	4.39	0.74	1
2	Authoritarian	2.45	0.93	0.03	1
3	Benevolent	3.57	0.94	0.32^**	0.07	1
4	Moral	4.96	0.96	0.53^**	− 0.27^**	0.25^**	1
5	Power distance orientation	2.68	0.60	− 0.03	0.52^**	0.03	−0.23^**	1
6	CSE	3.3	0.38	0.25^**	0.24^**	0.21^**	0.01	0.24^**	1
7	Gender	0.52	0.50	0.10^*	−0.15^**	−0.22^**	0.14^**	− 0.11^*	− 0.04	1
8	Junior college	0.27	0.45	−0.01	0.06	− 0.03	− 0.03	0.03	0.04	0.07	1
9	College	0.47	0.50	−0.01	−0.06	0.01	−0.01	− 0.06	− 0.02	− 0.03	−0.59^**	1
10	Postgraduate	0.05	0.22	−0.01	−0.05	0.01	0.06	−0.05	−0.01	− 0.03	−0.22^**	− 0.15^**	1
11	Age 31–40	0.32	0.47	−0.00	−0.04	−0.04	− 0.11	0.06	0.10^*	−0.07	0.00	0.00	0.04	1
12	Age 41–50	0.12	0.32	−0.07	0.14^**	−0.00	− 0.09	0.05	−.07	− 0.08	−0.02	0.04	−0.05	0.25^**	1
13	Age above 51	0.06	0.23	−0.04	−0.01	0.09	0.08	−0.06	−0.11^*	− 0.13^**	0.09	− 0.02	−0.06	− 0.17^**	−0.09	1
14	Subordinate	0.47	0.50	0.01	0.09	0.08	−0.05	0.08	−0.04	− 0.18^**	0.06	− 0.00	0.08	0.14^**	0.11^*	0.16^*	1

N = 423; ^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01

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