ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1514700
How LMX Affects University Teachers' SoTL Performance: A Comprehensive Analysis of Psychological Capital, LMX Differentiation, and Traditionality
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Educational Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China
- 2School of Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
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Strengthening the functions of grassroots teaching organization in colleges and universities and promoting the development of teaching practices are key to improving the quality of talent cultivation.Based on social exchange theory, resource conservation theory, and social comparison theory, this study develops a cross-level three-order regulatory moderated mediation model and explains the influence of leader-member exchange on the scholarship of teaching and learning performance among university teachers in grassroots teaching organizations. The results indicate that leader-member exchange among university teachers positively predicts the scholarship of teaching and learning performance, with the psychological capital serving as a partial mediator. The magnitude of the mediating effect is significantly influenced by the variation in leader-member exchange at the organizational level and the degree of traditionality among teachers at the individual level.Importantly,the positive influence of leader-member exchange on psychological capital is particularly pronounced when leader-member exchange differentiation is high and teacher traditionality is low.The findings of this study have important theoretical significance and practical value for the development of grassroots teaching organizations and the advancement of teaching practices.
Keywords: University teachers, grass-roots teaching organization, leader-member exchange, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) performance, Psychological Capital, leader-member exchange differentiation 1 Introduction
Received: 21 Oct 2024; Accepted: 09 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Fang, Zhang, Rao and Ouyang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jiashuai Fang, School of Educational Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China
Guanghua Ouyang, School of Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, Hubei Province, China
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