Relationship between core self-evaluations and team identification: The perception of abusive supervision and work engagement

Integrating the social exchange theory and self-consistency theory, this study proposes that the perception of followers' abusive supervision and work engagement mediate the association between core self-evaluations (CSE) and team identification. The sample consisted of 524 nurses of 79 health care teams. The results revealed that followers' CSE were positively correlated with work engagement, team identification and negatively associated with the perception of followers' abusive supervision. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) demonstrated that the perception of followers' abusive supervision and work engagement fully mediated the association between CSE and team identification. The results also revealed that the perception of followers' abusive supervision partially mediated the relationship between CSE and work engagement, and work engagement partially mediated association between the perception of followers' abusive supervision and team identification. These findings have contributed to the efforts to understand the mechanism related to antecedents of abusive supervision and team identification.