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

Monzani L. Bibic K. Haslam S.A. Kerschreiter R. Wilson Lemoine J.E. Steffens N.K. Akfirat S.A. Ballada C.J.A. Bazarov T. Aruta J.J.B.R. Avanzi L. Bunjak A. Černe M. Edelmann C.M. Epitropaki O. Fransen K. García-Ael C. Giessner S. Gleibs I. Godlewska-Werner D. Kark R. Gonzalez A.L. Lam H. Lupina-Wegener A. Markovits Y. Maskor M. Alonso F.J.M. Leon J.A.M. Neves P. Pauknerová D. Retowski S. Roland-Lévy C. Samekin A. Sekiguchi T. Story J. Stouten J. Sultanova L. Tatachari S. van Bunderen L. Van Dijk D. Wong S.I. van Dick R.
December 2024 John Wiley and Sons Inc

Political Psychology
2024 #45 Issue 6 979 - 1011 pp.

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 Development (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 ones 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 ones 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.

civic citizenship behavior , economic inequality , identity leadership , social identity , trust

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Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Canada
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Division of Social, Organizational and Economic Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Department of Professional Psychology, School of Psychology, University of East London, Stratford, United Kingdom
ESCP Business School, London, United Kingdom
Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
Counseling and Educational Psychology Department, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Expert Council RPS, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Trento University, Rovereto, Italy
University of Stavanger School of Business and Law, Norway
School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Durham University Business School, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Department of Economical and Organizational Psychology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
University of Exeter Business School, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom
Department of Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
School of Management and Law, ZHAW School of Management and Law, Zurich, Switzerland
Independent Authority of Public Revenue, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal
Department of Managerial Psychology and Sociology, Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czech Republic
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot, Poland
Department of Social Psychology, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Department of Psychology, M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnakata, India
Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beerseba, Israel
Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

Ivey Business School
Goethe University Frankfurt
University of Queensland
Division of Social
Department of Professional Psychology
ESCP Business School
Dokuz Eylul University
Counseling and Educational Psychology Department
Expert Council RPS
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science
University of Stavanger School of Business and Law
School of Economics and Business
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Durham University Business School
Department of Movement Sciences
Facultad de Psicología
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Department of Economical and Organizational Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Exeter Business School
Department of Psychology
School of Management and Law
Independent Authority of Public Revenue
Nova School of Business and Economics
Department of Managerial Psychology and Sociology
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Department of Social Psychology
Department of Psychology
Graduate School of Management
Sao Paulo School of Business Administration
Department of Psychology
T A Pai Management Institute
Economics and Business
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Communication and Culture

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