2026-10-13T02:54:00Z https://www.scidb.cn/oai

10.57760/sciencedb.psych.00782 2026-03-25T17:39:35Z

2026-03-25 Dyadic congruence in motivation to lead and peer-implicit leadership theories in leadership emergence: Mediating role of peer trust doi:10.57760/sciencedb.psych.00782 en Building on leadership identity construction theory, this study adopts a dyadic approach to investigate peer recognition of implicit fit to leadership motivation -- the congruence between how individuals want to lead (motivation to lead) and how peers see leaders (peer-implicit leadership theories), and how such a congruence is related to peer trust and indirectly to leadership emergence. We surveyed 298 individual-peer dyads at two time points using round-robin approach. Results of polynomial regression analyses reveal that peer trust and leadership emergence were higher in high-high dyads compared with those in low-low congruence dyads. Results also indicate that peer trust mediated the impact of congruence between motivation to lead and peer-implicit leadership theories on leadership emergence. Lastly, findings demonstrate the importance of understanding the process of peer recognition and highlight the importance of trust to considerably predict leadership emergence. peer recognition; motivation to lead; leadership emergence; implicit leadership theories; peer trust; leadership identity construction theory 程进凯 RESTRICTED dataset Science Data Bank