The Relationship between Self-Leadership and Personality: A Comparison of Hierarchical Factor Structures
| dc.contributor.author | Houghton, Jeffery D. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Bonham, Thirwall W. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Foti, Roseanne J. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Madigan, Robert M. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Neck, Christopher P. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Singh, Kusum | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Management | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-14T20:12:45Z | en |
| dc.date.adate | 2000-06-07 | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-14T20:12:45Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2000-06-01 | en |
| dc.date.rdate | 2001-06-07 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2000-06-06 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study examined the relationship between self-leadership and personality through an analysis and comparison of hierarchical factor structures. More specifically, this study examined the relationships between the self-leadership dimensions of behavior-focused strategies, natural reward strategies, and constructive thought strategies, and the personality dimensions of extraversion, emotional stability, and conscientiousness. The results of the study provide evidence that the self-leadership dimensions are distinct from, yet related to, the specified personality traits. The hypothesis that self-leadership strategies are distinct from the selected personality traits was supported through structural equations modeling analyses examining competing models combining the hierarchical factor structures of self-leadership and personality. Model fit increased significantly through a progression of models that showed increasingly greater distinction between self-leadership dimensions and personality traits. The best fitting model in the progression, in harmony with both self-leadership and trait personality theory, consisted of a hierarchical factor structure with three first order self-leadership factors, three first order personality factors, and two correlated second order factors (i.e., self-leadership and personality). Furthermore, intercorrelations were greater within the self-leadership dimensions than between the self-leadership dimensions and the personality traits, thus providing additional evidence of differentiation. Although the evidence indicates that self-leadership skill dimensions are unique with respect to personality traits, these results also suggest that self-leadership and personality factors are nevertheless significantly related. Specifically, both extraversion and conscientiousness were significantly related to all three self-leadership dimensions, while emotional stability was significantly related only to the natural rewards strategies dimension. In summation, the results of this study suggest that self-leadership represents a distinct constellation of strategies that are significantly related to certain key personality traits. The implications of these results for future self-leadership research and practice are discussed. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Ph. D. | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-06062000-12260008 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062000-12260008/ | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27957 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | vita.pdf | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | etd.pdf | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | personality | en |
| dc.subject | hierarchical factor structure | en |
| dc.subject | self-leadership | en |
| dc.title | The Relationship between Self-Leadership and Personality: A Comparison of Hierarchical Factor Structures | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Management | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | en |