Gruda, Jon and Kafetsios, Konstantinos (2019) Attachment Orientations Guide the Transfer of Leadership Judgments: Culture Matters. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. ISSN 0146-1672
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Abstract
Two experiments tested the role of global and relationship-specific attachment orientations in
leader transference, a social-cognitive process in which mental representations of past leaders
are associated with the evaluations of new, similar leaders. Individuals scoring higher on
anxious attachment were more likely to hold high just treatment expectations of new leaders
who were similar to their previous leaders. Conversely, avoidant individuals evaluated new
similar leaders low on just treatment expectations and perceived them as less effective.
Relationship-specific attachment orientations predicted transfer of behavioral judgments of
just treatment, while global attachment orientations predicted transfer of perceived leader
effectiveness. These effects were moderated by culture. In two collectivistic cultures (Greece
and India), avoidant individuals demonstrated low just treatment expectations of their new
similar leader. In an individualistic culture (US), avoidant participants showed high
behavioral expectations of their new, similar, leader. The results inform emerging views on
relational social-cognitive processes in leader-follower interactions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | leadership; attachment orientations; culture; social perception; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
Item ID: | 11260 |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0146167219865514 |
Depositing User: | Jon Gruda |
Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2019 16:10 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/11260 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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