Research to date has advanced opposing viewpoints on whether leaders who are psychologically empowered support the autonomy of their subordinates or engage in controlling leader behaviors. Our integration of research on empowerment and social hierarchy suggests that leaders' feelings of empowerment can promote autonomy-supporting and/or controlling leader behaviors, contingent on the leaders' prestige and dominance motivations, respectively. Our findings demonstrate that, among leaders high (vs. low) in prestige motivation, psychological empowerment is positively related to autonomy-supporting leader behaviors because these leaders prefer to influence others by earning their freely conferred respect and deference. In contrast, among leaders high (vs. low) in dominance motivation, psychological empowerment is positively related to controlling leader behaviors because these leaders prefer to influence others using authority and control. Three empirical studies support our theoretical model. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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对你自己（授权）的自我是真实的：调整社会等级动机和领导行为。

迄今为止的研究提出了相反的观点，即心理授权的领导者是支持下属的自主权还是参与控制领导者的行为。我们对授权和社会等级研究的整合表明，领导者的授权感可以促进自主支持和/或控制领导行为，分别取决于领导者的声望和支配动机。我们的研究结果表明，在威望动机高（相对于低）的领导中，心理授权与支持自主的领导行为正相关，因为这些领导更喜欢通过赢得他人自由授予的尊重和尊重来影响他人。相比之下，在支配动机高（与低）的领导者中，心理授权与控制领导行为正相关，因为这些领导更喜欢使用权威和控制来影响他人。三项实证研究支持我们的理论模型。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。