Graduation Date
Summer 2018
Document Type
Thesis
Program
Master of Arts degree with a major in Psychology, option Academic Research
Committee Chair Name
Amber Gaffney
Committee Chair Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Second Committee Member Name
Amanda Hahn
Second Committee Member Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Third Committee Member Name
Benjamin Graham
Subject Categories
Psychology
Abstract
Given that leaders have the ability to create, modify and reinforce group identity, it is important to understand the effect of leader prototype violation on the group identity, and subsequent leader preferences. An experiment (N = 191), examined the effect of leader prototype violation and self-conceptual uncertainty on evaluations of subsequent leadership. Although results did not support the primary hypotheses that the leader who was removed would be evaluated more harshly than the leader who completed term, and that under high uncertainty support for the non-prototypical candidate would increase the most when the previous leader was removed, exploratory analyses showed that evaluations of the prototypical candidate were strongest under low uncertainty as group identification increased, whereas support for the non-prototypical leader decreased under low uncertainty as group identification increased. These findings expand previous research, providing further support for the idea that leaders provide an important identity function that can be impacted by conceptual self-uncertainty.
Citation Style
APA
Recommended Citation
Syfers, Lily, "Leadership and identity disruption" (2018). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 170.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/170