Torrence Brett S, Connelly Shane
Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jul 2;10:1486. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01486. eCollection 2019.
Emotion regulation is advocated to be an important factor underlying effective leadership given the task demands and interpersonal stressors facing organizational leaders. Despite the recognition of emotion regulation processes in leadership literature, there is a need for additional theorizing and empirical research on the specific cognitive and behavioral strategies utilized by leaders. This effort attempts to address this gap by examining individual tendencies in four emotion regulation strategies, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive reappraisal, and suppression, and their association with leadership task performance. Using an undergraduate student sample, this correlational study assessed the relationship between emotion regulation tendencies and performance in emotionally-relevant domains of leadership. Results provide partial support, suggesting that situation modification and cognitive reappraisal are positively related to leadership performance, whereas suppression was found to relate negatively with performance. Emotion regulation strategies were also found to account for variance in leadership performance above and beyond other emotion-related individual differences. Taken together, these findings suggest that certain regulation processes may be more functional for leaders and extend emotion regulation research in the leadership domain. Theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.
鉴于组织领导者面临的任务需求和人际压力源，情绪调节被认为是有效领导的一个重要潜在因素。尽管领导学文献中已经认识到情绪调节过程，但仍需要对领导者所采用的具体认知和行为策略进行更多的理论化和实证研究。本研究试图通过考察情境修正、注意力分配、认知重评和抑制这四种情绪调节策略中的个体倾向及其与领导任务绩效的关联来填补这一空白。本相关性研究以本科生为样本，评估了情绪调节倾向与领导中情感相关领域绩效之间的关系。研究结果提供了部分支持，表明情境修正和认知重评与领导绩效呈正相关，而抑制与绩效呈负相关。研究还发现，情绪调节策略在解释领导绩效的差异方面，超出了其他与情绪相关的个体差异。综合来看，这些发现表明某些调节过程可能对领导者更具功能性，并扩展了领导领域的情绪调节研究。本文讨论了该研究的理论和实践意义。
