The perception of the leader as an attachment figure: can it mediate the relationship between work engagement and general/citizenship performance?

Table 5 Mediation analysis of the path from work engagement to general work performance mediated through secure figure and separation distress

		Std. error	z-value	p	95% confidence interval
		Std. error	z-value	p	Estimate	Upper
Direct effects
UWES → GP	0.281	0.031	9.143	< .001	0.210	0.357
Indirect effects
UWES → LSPS_F1 → GP	− 0.016	0.015	− 1.044	0.297	− 0.048	0.021
UWES → LSPS_F2 → GP	0.008	0.012	0.653	0.514	-0.020	0.031
Total effects
UWES → GP	0.273	0.027	9.945	< .001	0.211	0.340
Total indirect effects
UWES → GP	− 0.008	0.014	− 0.547	0.584	− 0.034	0.028

Delta method standard errors, bias-corrected percentile bootstrap confidence intervals, ML estimator
UWES work engagement, LSPS1 secure figure, LSPS2 separation distress, GP general work performance

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