Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: It has been several years since Brown and Trevino (2006) offered the opinion that the field of ethical leadership was still uncharted territory; knowing how leaders ought to behave is well explored but understanding how we can predict ethical leadership is uncultivated.This research investigated psychological capital as a predictor of ethical leadership.Study 1 (N = 440) examined the structure and model fit of the psychological capital scale using confirmatory factor analysis.The four-factor model resulted in an equal but more parsimonious fit of data as compared to a second order factor (X 2 robust (246,N=440)= 542.21,CFI = .90,RMSEA = .05CI [.05-.06]).Study 2 (N = 47) a combined data set of matched leaders and followers were used to examine the relationship between self-evaluated leader psychological capital and follower evaluated ethical leadership.Hope, as measured by psychological capital, uniquely accounted for 7% of the variance when controlling for age and gender (b = .39,SE = .20,B = .52,t = 2.00, p = .05).
Author: Michelle Katharine Berlinguette
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2149658179