Development and Preliminary Validation of the Interest in Leadership Scale

Bibliographic Data

ID3333927
AuthorsArthur R Steele (0000-0001-5045-9520, Murdoch University, corresponding author), David V Day (0000-0002-0180-5463, Claremont McKenna College)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue1
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244019900182
OpenAlexW2999262450
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

Interest pertains to an individual's psychological arousal toward a topic, which is thought to motivate effort allocation and attention. Interest in leadership has been identified as a potential antecedent of leader development; however, supporting empirical evidence has been hindered by the lack of a relevant scale to measure the construct. Study 1 outlines the development of the Interest in Leadership Scale (ILS) using Rasch scale development principles. Study 2 establishes the predictive validity of the ILS with self-rated leadership emergence and transformational leadership behaviors. This measure is likely to prove useful in the future measurement of and research into the topic of interest in leadership

Construct validity · Developmental psychology · Empirical research · Epistemology · Leadership development · Political science · Psychometrics · Public relations · Rasch model · Transactional leadership · Transformational leadership · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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