Trait affective presence and leadership emergence: A preliminary study

Decades of studies have focused on the antecedents of leadership emergence, especially the impact of traits on it. Based on the importance of affect in organizations, scholars recently proposed a novel emotion-related trait-trait affective presence-which enables individuals to generally lead others to experience the same affective feelings. We adopted this construct and examined the association between trait affective presence and leadership emergence in small groups by using social relations analyses with TripleR, a package of R, to analyze data from 179 undergraduates from 44 dormitories in China. The results showed that positive rather than negative trait affective presence was significant in explaining peoples' emotions. Regression analysis revealed that positive trait affective presence was positively related to leadership emergence when trait affect and the Big Five personality traits were controlled. The implications of these findings and future research directions were also discussed.
Author(s): Yiyi Chen [sup.1] [sup.2] , Feng Li [sup.1] [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.9227.e, 0000000119573309, CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, , 16 [...]