Abstract: The authors discussed the moderating role of transactional leadership between individuals' delay of gratification (DOG) and their vocational delay of gratification in career (VDOG). Several questionnaires were conducted on 227 employees and their 22 direct leaders. The multi-level analysis (HLM) shows that the employees’ DOG trait (level 2), together with the transactional leadership (level 2), will affect the employees’ VDOG. Specifically, under low-level transactional leadership, employees of high level delay DOG trait are reported more VDOG than those of low level DOG trait, while under high-level transactional leadership, employees of both high and low level delay of gratification are reported high VDOG.

Key words: delay of gratification, vocational delay of gratification, transactional leadership, multi-level analysis, moderator

摘要： 探讨了交易型领导风格在人们的延迟满足特质与他们在职业生活中表现出来的延迟满足行为间的调节作用。采用问卷法收集数据, 运用HLM进行多层分析, 以227名银行企业员工和他们分属的22个银行网点的直接主管为被试, 探讨上层领导的交易型领导风格如何调节下属的延迟满足特质与职业延迟满足行为之间的关系。结果显示: 员工自身的延迟满足特质和上层领导的交易型领导风格会共同影响员工的职业延迟满足。在低交易型领导风格下, 高延迟满足的个体比低延迟满足的个体报告了更多的职业延迟满足; 而在高交易型领导风格下, 具有高、低延迟满足能力的员工都报告有更多的职业延迟满足。

关键词: 延迟满足, 职业延迟满足, 交易型领导风格, 多层分析, 调节变量