Procedural injustice, victim precipitation, and abusive supervision

Data collected from a field survey of 334 supervisor-subordinate dyads was used to test a model of the antecedents of abusive supervision. Path analytic tests of moderated mediation provided support for the prediction that supervisor's depression mediates the relationship between supervisors' procedural justice and subordinates' perception of their supervisors' abusiveness and that the mediation framework is stronger when subordinates are higher in negative affectivity.