TY  - EJOU
AU  - Wang, Qinglin 
AU  - Zhang, Hang 
AU  - Zhao, Junzhe 
AU  - Chao, Wenfan 
AU  - Wang, Minghui 

TI  - School principal moral leadership and teachers’ voice behavior: Work role engagement and interpersonal perspectives mediation
T2  - Journal of Psychology in Africa

PY  - 2025
VL  - 35
IS  - 5
SN  - 1815-5626

AB  - This study investigated the role of work role engagement and interpersonal perspectives mediation in the relationship between school principal moral leadership and teachers’ voice behavior. A sample comprising 315 middle school teachers from a central province in China participated in the research (females = 73.3%). These teachers completed surveys on moral leadership, work engagement, trust in superiors, and voice behavior. The results of dual mediation modeling indicated evidence of an indirect effect of moral leadership on teachers’ voice behavior through work engagement. The results also indicated evidence of mediating effect of trust between moral leadership and teachers’ voice behavior. Our findings provide the evidence for moral leadership on teachers’ voice behavior in the Chinese educational context consistent with social exchange theory. To promote teacher voice behavior, in addition to increasing a leader’s level of moral leadership, it can also increase subordinates’ engagement to their work and trust in the leader.
KW  - moral leadership; work engagement; trust; voice behavior

DO  - 10.32604/jpa.2025.068969