Yang Yang, Wang Yongli, Lu Hailing, Tan Ling
Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Nov 17;11:571401. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571401. eCollection 2020.
The antecedents of leadership emergence have received increasing attention over the past decades. Extant work has found that traits that involve with other members in social relations can help employees emerge as leaders. However, attachment has been ignored, even though it can provide a distinct relational perspective to . This study investigates the relationship between attachment and leadership emergence as well as the mediating role of negative emotion and the moderating role of initiating structure in the relationship. Specifically, based on multisource data of 100 employees and their supervisors, the results reveal that avoidant attachment and anxious attachment exert a negative impact on leadership emergence via negative emotion. Moreover, the mediating effect on the above relationship is weaker when employees are at a high initiating structure level. The findings imply that insecurely attached employees can also be leaders if they expend more effort and focus more on task completion.
在过去几十年里，领导力产生的前因受到了越来越多的关注。现有研究发现，在社会关系中与其他成员相关的特质能够帮助员工成为领导者。然而，依恋一直被忽视，尽管它能为……提供独特的关系视角。本研究考察了依恋与领导力产生之间的关系，以及负面情绪的中介作用和领导结构在该关系中的调节作用。具体而言，基于100名员工及其上级的多源数据，研究结果表明，回避型依恋和焦虑型依恋通过负面情绪对领导力产生有负面影响。此外，当员工处于高领导结构水平时，上述关系的中介效应较弱。研究结果表明，依恋不安全的员工如果付出更多努力并更专注于任务完成，也能够成为领导者。
