Differential Behavioral Pathways Linking Personality to Leadership Emergence and Effectiveness in Groups.

ABSTRACT: This study integrates leadership process models with process models of personality and behavioral personality science to examine the behavioral-perceptual pathways that explain interpersonal personality traits' divergent relation to group leadership evaluations. We applied data from an online group interaction study (N = 364) alternately assigning participants as leaders conducting brief tasks. We used four variable types to build the pathways in multiple mediator models: (a) Self-reported personality traits, (b) video recordings of expressed interpersonal behaviors coded by 6 trained raters, (c) interpersonal impressions, and (d) mutual evaluations of leadership emergence/effectiveness. We find interpersonal big five traits to differently relate to the two leadership outcomes via t

SUBMITTER: Hartel TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12446710 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature