Front. Psychol. Frontiers in Psychology Front. Psychol. 1664-1078 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1787630 Correction Correction: Mission valence of civil servants: development and validation of a three-dimensional scale Liu Xi 1 Zhao Mengchu 2 * Zheng Weibo 1 College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China School of Law and Humanities, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China Correspondence: Mengchu Zhao, zhaomengchu@zstu.edu.cn 09 02 2026 2026 17 1787630 14 01 2026 15 01 2026 Copyright © 2026 Liu, Zhao and Zheng. 2026 Liu, Zhao and Zheng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Correction on Mission valence of civil servants: development and validation of a three-dimensional scale by Liu, X., Zhao, M., and Zheng, W. (2026). Front. Psychol 16:1734019. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1734019 civil servants' mission valence dimension exploration grounded theory public sector scale development section-at-acceptance Organizational Psychology

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Means, standard deviations, and correlations among study variables (N = 456).

Variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Gender 1
2. Age −0.052 1
3. Education 0.061 −0.057 1
4. Tenure −0.054 0.645*** −0.135*** 1
5. Department type 0.049 0.027 0.038 0.006 1
6. Job level 0.060 0.005 −0.072 −0.020 −0.003 1
7. SL 0.043 −0.091 0.017 −0.095* 0.035 0.150** 1
8. MV −0.081 0.032 −0.070 0.048 −0.007 0.022 0.446*** 1
9. PSM −0.060 −0.004 −0.067 −0.011 0.064 0.007 0.447*** 0.665*** 1
Mean 1.520 2.020 2.230 2.800 3.920 1.300 3.725 3.729 3.617
SD 0.500 0.725 0.514 1.131 3.079 0.524 1.007 0.957 0.905

SL, servant leadership; MV, mission valence; PSM, public service motivation.

**p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Regression analysis results (N = 456).

Variables PSM MV
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5 Model 6
Gender −0.117 −0.139 −0.155 −0.179* −0.073 −0.095
Age 0.005 0.041 0.003 0.041 −0.001 0.016
Education −0.129 −0.141 −0.116 −0.128 −0.025 −0.043
Tenure −0.023 −0.003 0.031 0.052 0.047 0.054
Department type 0.022 0.017 0.000 −0.006 −0.016 −0.016
Job level 0.010 −0.116 0.044 −0.090 0.038 −0.019
SL 0.488*** 0.520*** 0.225***
PSM 0.701*** 0.605***
R2 0.013 0.218 0.013 0.223 0.450 0.481
ΔR2 0.013 0.205 0.013 0.211 0.438 0.258
F 0.998 17.873*** 0.958 18.396*** 52.413*** 51.885***

SL, servant leadership; MV, mission valence; PSM, public service motivation.

*p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001.

The original version of this article has been updated.

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