Abstract:

In order to enhance the level of flight students' safety behaviors, the match between authentic leadership of flight instructors and authentic followership of flight students was used as the independent variable, the safety behavior of flight students was used as the dependent variable, and the satisfaction of basic psychological needs was used as the mediating variable, Polynomial regression and response surface analysis methods were employed, and data from 256 valid survey questionnaires were used to investigate the influence of match between authentic leadership of flight instructors and authentic followership of flight students on safety behavior of flight students. The results show that the more the flight instructor's authentic leadership matches with the flight student's authentic followership, the higher the flight student's basic psychological needs satisfaction level is, the flight student's basic psychological needs satisfaction level is higher in the case of "high authentic leadership-high authentic followership" than in the case of "low authentic leadership-low authentic followership". The level of basic psychological needs satisfaction of flight students in the "low authentic leadership-high authentic followership" scenario is higher than that of the "high authentic leadership-low authentic followership" scenario. In the match between authentic leadership of flight instructors and authentic followership of flight students, the satisfaction of basic psychological needs mediates the effect on flight students' safe behavior.

Key words: flight instructors, authentic leadership, authentic followership, flight students, matching, basic psychological needs satisfaction, safety behaviors