Social Support and Affective Commitment: Mediation Mechanisms of Relational Attachment

Abstract

This study aims to determine whether social support has an effect on affective commitment and whether relational attachmen is able to mediate the relationship between social support and affective commitment to employees. Sources of data in this paper are primary data. With 99 employees as the writing sample. Analysis of the data used in this paper is PLS Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) which is operated through the WarpPLS program. The results showed that social support had a positive and significant effect on relational engagement, relational attachment had a positive and significant effect on affective commitment, and relational attachment was able to mediate social relationships support affective commitmen.

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“…Setti and colleagues [97] in a paper that analyze well-being and affective commitment among ambulance volunteers underline the role of social support and its positive impact on affective commitment to decrease job burnout, similar results of Nazir and colleagues [98] in a sample of nursing employees in which perceived organizational support is positively related to the organizational affective commitment and to innovative behavior. Dilla and Zainal [99] highlight the existence of a strong and mutual positive relationship between social support and affective commitment mediated by relational attachment and Orgambídez and de Almeida [100] have found that supervisor support had both a direct effect and an indirect effect on affective organizational commitment through vigor and absorption. Finally, Ullah and colleagues [101] found an indirect effect of perceived organizational support and proactive personality on affective commitment through prosocial motivation.…”