National University of Ireland Maynooth, School of Business, Maynooth, Ireland.
Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, USA.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2022 Oct;230:103742. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103742. Epub 2022 Sep 7.
The existing literature has explored the role and importance of personality traits in leader prototypicality. However, limited research exists concerning the link between personality traits and leader emergence or prototypicality in ad hoc teams. Based on the relational leadership and attachment literature, we examine whether leader attachment orientations can serve as antecedents of leader prototypicality in ad hoc teams. Utilizing an ad hoc problem-solving task featuring a round-robin design in a sample of 197 participants, we find that individuals with a dominant avoidant attachment orientation were more likely to be perceived as leader-like or leader prototypical. In comparison, individuals with a dominant anxious attachment orientation were much less likely to emerge as leader prototypical. We interpret these findings in alignment with attachment theory and relational leadership and discuss the role of relational personality traits in ad hoc teams with no formally appointed leader.
现有文献探讨了人格特质在领导典型性中的作用和重要性。然而，关于人格特质与临时团队中领导出现或典型性之间的联系，研究有限。基于关系领导和依恋文献，我们研究了领导者依恋取向是否可以作为临时团队中领导典型性的前因。在一项涉及 197 名参与者的轮次设计的临时问题解决任务中，我们发现具有支配性回避依恋取向的个体更有可能被视为具有领导风范或典型性的领导者。相比之下，具有支配性焦虑依恋取向的个体不太可能成为典型的领导者。我们根据依恋理论和关系领导理论来解释这些发现，并讨论在没有正式任命领导者的临时团队中关系人格特质的作用。
