Expressions of gratitude by leaders tend to yield positive effects in the workplace. Leaders, however, are not solely bestowers of gratitude but also recipients of it. Although leaders are often studied for their influence on others in the workplace, it is crucial to acknowledge that they are also complete individuals with personal lives outside of work that can spill over and affect their feelings and leadership behaviors at work. To advance research on leadership and gratitude, we take a whole-person view of leaders to understand the interpersonal crossover and intrapersonal spillover of gratitude. By integrating the moral affect theory of gratitude and savoring interventions research, we investigate how an intervention involving reflecting on gratitude received from family members at home motivates leaders to be more helpful and empowering toward their followers at work. We studied these ideas across three daily field experiments with 103 full-time managers from high schools, 116 leader-follower dyads from a variety of industries, and 109 leaders across various industries. Our findings demonstrate that when leaders reflected on receiving gratitude from family members at home, they felt higher prosocial impact at home, which in turn fulfilled their basic daily needs, consequently motivating them to engage in more helping and empowering behavior toward their followers at work. We also found some evidence that leaders higher in trait negative affect benefited the least from reflecting on receiving gratitude at home. We discuss how our findings provide extensions to literatures on gratitude, leadership, and work-family issues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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反思在家中对工作中领导者的感激之情的好处：来自三个实地实验的见解。


领导者表达感激之情往往会在工作场所产生积极的影响。然而，领导者不仅是感恩的给予者，也是感恩的接受者。尽管人们经常研究领导者在工作场所对他人的影响，但重要的是要承认他们也是完整的个体，在工作之外拥有个人生活，这些生活可能会影响他们在工作中的感受和领导行为。为了推进领导力和感恩的研究，我们以领导者的全人视角来理解感恩的人际交叉和个人内部溢出。通过整合感恩的道德情感理论和品味干预研究，我们研究了反思家庭成员在家中收到的感激之情的干预如何激励领导者在工作中为下属提供更多帮助和授权。我们通过三个日常实地实验研究了这些想法，对象包括 103 名来自高中的全职管理者、116 名来自不同行业的领导者-追随者二人组以及 109 名不同行业的领导者。我们的研究结果表明，当领导者反思在家里受到家人的感谢时，他们会在家里感受到更高的亲社会影响，这反过来又满足了他们的基本日常需求，从而激励他们在工作中对下属采取更多帮助和授权行为。我们还发现一些证据表明，特质负面影响较高的领导者从反思在家接受感激中获益最少。我们讨论了我们的发现如何为有关感恩、领导力和工作家庭问题的文献提供扩展。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。