The Effect of Gender Role, Attitude toward Leadership, and Self-Confidence on Leader Emergence: Implications for Leadership Development. [and] Invited Reaction: Gender, Social Roles, and the Emergence of Leaders.

Kolb, Judith A.; Karau, Steven J.; Eagly, Alice H.

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ERIC Number: EJ600649

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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The Effect of Gender Role, Attitude toward Leadership, and Self-Confidence on Leader Emergence: Implications for Leadership Development. [and] Invited Reaction: Gender, Social Roles, and the Emergence of Leaders.

Kolb, Judith A.; Karau, Steven J.; Eagly, Alice H.

Human Resource Development Quarterly, v10 n4 p305-20,321-27 Win 1999

In Kolb's study, 123 students completed Bem's Sex Role Inventory before and a leadership scale after participating in mixed-gender groups. Attitudes toward leadership and leadership experience were stronger predictors of leader emergence than masculine gender role was. Karau and Eagly's reaction places the study in a theoretical context. (SK)

Descriptors: Leadership, Leadership Training, Masculinity, Predictor Variables, Self Esteem, Sex Role, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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