Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior : the mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality

Monzani, Lucas (author), Bibic, Kira (author), Haslam, S. Alexander (author), Černe, Matej (author)

Identity leadership captures leaders efforts to create and promote a sense of shared group membership (i.e., a sense of “we” and of “us”) among followers. The present research report tests this claim by drawing on data from 26 countries that are part of the Global Identity Leadership evelopment (GILD) project to examine the relationship between political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior (N = 6787). It also examines the contributions of trust and economic inequality to this relationship. Political leaders' identity leadership (PLIL) was positively associated with respondents' people-oriented civic citizenship behaviors (CCB-P) in 20 of 26 countries and civic citizenship behaviors aimed at one's country (CCB-C) in 23 of 26 countries. Mediational analyses also confirmed the indirect effects of PLIL via trust in fellow citizens on both CCB-P (in 25 out of 26 countries) and CCB-C (in all 26 countries). Economic inequality moderated these effects such that the main and indirect effects of trust in one's fellow citizens on CCB-C were stronger in countries with higher economic inequality. This interaction effect was not observed for CCB-P. The study highlights the importance of identity leadership and trust in fellow citizens in promoting civic citizenship behavior, especially in the context of economic inequality

• Language: English
• Keywords: civic citizenship behavior, economic inequality, identity leadership, social identity, trust
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 979-1011
• Numbering: Vol. 45, iss. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167420
• UDC: 005.3
• ISSN on article: 0162-895X
• DOI: 10.1111/pops.12952
• COBISS.SI-ID: 179672067
• Publication date in RUL: 20.02.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Political psychology
• Shortened title: Polit. psychol.
• Publisher: Plenum
• ISSN: 0162-895X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26149120

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: vodenje, neenakost, identiteta podjetja