Replication Data for: "Unlocking the Power of ‘Us’: Longitudinal Evidence that Identity Leadership Predicts Team Functioning and Athlete Well-Being" KU Leuven
The social identity approach has become an important framework for understanding effective leadership in sport contexts. More specifically, leaders’ identity leadership (i.e., their capacity to cultivate shared social identity — a shared sense of ‘we’ — in their teams) is argued to be an important basis for effective leadership. The present study is the first to longitudinally examine the relative impact of coaches’ and athlete leaders’ identity leadership on athletes’ identification with their team. In addition, we tested whether athletes’ team identification mediated the relationships with ...