Two-wave study reveals that motivation mediates supervisor support effects on adaptive performance in fluid workers, highlighting the importance of supporting basic psychological needs.
Key Points
To examine how basic psychological needs (autonomy, relatedness, and competence) mediate the relationship between perceived supervisor support and the adaptive performance of fluid workers.
Survey data gathered across two time points from N=354 fluid workers.
Motivation (satisfaction of autonomy, relatedness, and competence needs) functioned as a significant mediating mechanism through which perceived supervisor support positively affected adaptive performance.