Beyond Prototypicality: Identity Leadership Is About Shaping and Embedding a Sense of Social Identity, Not Just Representing It

Jeremy E. Wilson-lemoine; Martyna D. Swiatczak; Niklas K. Steffens; Rolf Van Dick; Rudolf Kerschreiter; Serap Arslan Akfirat; Lorenzo Avanzi; Christine Joy A. Ballada; Bita Barghi; Tahir Bazarov; John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta; Aldijana Bunjak; Matej Cerne; Kitty Dumont; Charlotte M. Edelmann; Olga Epitropaki; Katrien Fransen; Cristina Garcia-ael; Steffen R. Giessner; Ilka H. Gleibs; Dorota Godlewska-werner; Ronit Kark; Ana Laguia Gonzalez; Hodar Lam; Jukka Lipponen; Anna Lupina-wegener; Yannis Markovits; Mazlan Maskor; Fernando J. Molero Alonso; Lucas Monzani; Juan A. Moriano Leon; Pedro Neves; Gabor Orosz; Diwakar Pandey; Daniela Pauknerova; Sylwiusz Retowski; Christine Roland-levy; Adil Samekin; Sebastian C. Schuh; Tomoki Sekiguchi; Lynda Jiwen Song; Joana Story; Jeroen Stouten; Liliya Sultanova; Srinivasan Tatachari; Daniel Valdenegro; Lisanne Van Bunderen; Dina Van Dijk; Viktor Voros; Sut I. Wong; Farida Youssef; Xin-an Zhang; S. Alexander Haslam

doi:10.1111/jasp.70049

Beyond Prototypicality: Identity Leadership Is About Shaping and Embedding a Sense of Social Identity, Not Just Representing It

Jeremy E. Wilson-lemoine
, Martyna D. Swiatczak
, Niklas K. Steffens
, Rolf Van Dick
, Rudolf Kerschreiter
, Serap Arslan Akfirat
, Lorenzo Avanzi
, Christine Joy A. Ballada
, Bita Barghi
, Tahir Bazarov
, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta
, Aldijana Bunjak
, Matej Cerne
, Kitty Dumont
, Charlotte M. Edelmann
, Olga Epitropaki
, Katrien Fransen
, Cristina Garcia-ael
, Steffen R. Giessner
, Ilka H. Gleibs

Dorota Godlewska-werner, Ronit Kark, Ana Laguia Gonzalez, Hodar Lam, Jukka Lipponen, Anna Lupina-wegener, Yannis Markovits, Mazlan Maskor, Fernando J. Molero Alonso, Lucas Monzani, Juan A. Moriano Leon, Pedro Neves, Gabor Orosz, Diwakar Pandey, Daniela Pauknerova, Sylwiusz Retowski, Christine Roland-levy, Adil Samekin, Sebastian C. Schuh, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Lynda Jiwen Song, Joana Story, Jeroen Stouten, Liliya Sultanova, Srinivasan Tatachari, Daniel Valdenegro, Lisanne Van Bunderen, Dina Van Dijk, Viktor Voros, Sut I. Wong, Farida Youssef, Xin-an Zhang, S. Alexander Haslam

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Original language	English
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Applied Social Psychology
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70049
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 5 Feb 2026

Keywords

bifactor-(S-1) model
Identity leadership inventory
Latent profile analysis
Leadership
Social identity

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Wilson-lemoine, J. E., Swiatczak, M. D., Steffens, N. K., Van Dick, R., Kerschreiter, R., Akfirat, S. A., Avanzi, L., Ballada, C. J. A., Barghi, B., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Bunjak, A., Cerne, M., Dumont, K., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., Garcia-ael, C., Giessner, S. R., ... Haslam, S. A. (2026). Beyond Prototypicality: Identity Leadership Is About Shaping and Embedding a Sense of Social Identity, Not Just Representing It. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70049

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