标题：The Role of Psychological Empowerment and Value Congruence in Mediating the Impact of Transformational Leadership on Follower Commitment in American Churches
摘要：The purpose of this research was to investigate the extent to which psychological empowerment and value congruence with the leader mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and follower commitment in American churches. Quantitative data from 250 leaders and followers from 5 American churches were collected utilizing four instruments that measured follower commitment, value congruence, transformational leadership characteristics, and psychological empowerment. The research results revealed that transformational leadership had a statistically significant relationship with follower's affective commitment and normative commitment and that these leadership behaviors accounted for 32.8% of the variance in the followers' affective commitment and 31.4% of the variance in the followers' normative commitment. The research results also reveal that psychological empowerment and value congruence partially mediated that relationship
