Radhika Butalia, Anthony Miller, Niklas K Steffens, S Alexander Haslam, Mark W Bruner, Colin D McLaren, Filip Boen, Matthew J Slater, Kyle Dunn, Katrien Fransen
The social identity approach to leadership posits that leaders' effectiveness depends on their ability to represent, advance, create, and embed a shared sense of social identity among their followers. Although significant progress has been made in investigating the benefits of identity leadership in adult sports, research in youth sports is still in its infancy. One reason is the lack of a youth-centric inventory that adequately measures identity leadership in this population. To bridge this gap, we developed and validated a long (16 items) and short (5 items) version of the Identity Leadership Inventory for Youth Sport (ILI-Y or ILI-Y-Short-Form) through five studies conducted in three phases of research...
March 21, 2024: Psychology of Sport and Exercise