Abstract

Abusive supervision refers to the pattern of hostile verbal and non-verbal behavior exhibited by supervisor towards their subordinate. Abusive supervision is considered to be highly noxious in research working environment. It is considered a major source of research student’s performance and success in their career. The current research proposed to investigate the “Relationship between Abusive supervision and psychological empowerment of university students”. the purpose of the study was to investigate the perceptions of university students and find out the effect of psychological empowerment on abusive supervision. To achieve the research purpose the quantitative research design followed and survey method used for data collection. The sample of 603 university students enrolled in MPhil and PhD research work are participated in this study. The questionnaire of abusivesupervision,and psychological empowerment developed by the researcher were used to collecting data. The collected data were recorded in SPSS sheet. The descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyzed the collected data. However, the findings of this study revealed that abusive supervision has no significant difference on psychological empowerment of the university students.