What is the meaning of 'insecure of'?

[tulipflower]

What is the meaning of 'the more insecure of managers' in the following paragraph? I have read it several times by I can't get the meaning.


... .Considerable ingenuity is used to suggest the status of the owner. There are ironies here. The most costly chairs are generally those that offered the most movement, but these have come to be associated in many organizations with clerical workers, which can provide undesirable connotations for the more insecure of managers. So, paradoxically, the executive chair, …. may actually be the cheapest to produce. And rather than add directly useful or comfort-providing extra features, the high status chairs simply use a more costly covering, or are, with unsubtle obviousness, made flatteringly large larger.


Reference: Focus on Vocabulary 1 by Diane Schmitt, Norbert Schmitt, David Mann

 

[probus]

It means: those managers whose level.of psychological insecurity is higher than average.

 

[emsr2d2]

Managers who are more insecure than other managers.

 

[tulipflower]

Can we generalize it and make structures like 'more insecure of teachers' or 'more insecure of students'?

 

[tedmc]

Can we generalize it and make structures like 'more insecure of teachers' or 'more insecure of students'?

I think adding the word group to the phrase - the more insecure group of managers - would make it easier to understand. It could be used with other nouns but I think it is not a common form of phrasing.

 

[jutfrank]

Can we generalize it and make structures like 'more insecure of teachers' or 'more insecure of students'?

Yes, but you must include the definite article the at the beginning.

 

[emsr2d2]

As jutfrank said, the definite article is required.

The more intelligent of you will understand this sentence easily.
This exercise is easy for the more advanced of my students.

 

[Tdol]

The more intelligent of you will understand this sentence easily.

This may be troubling for the more insecure of students.