TY - JOUR

T1 - Emotional Intelligence and Authentic Leadership:

T2 - A Meta-Analysis

AU - Miao, Chao

AU - Humphrey, Ronald

AU - Qian, Shanshan

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PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Authentic leadership is a popular leadership construct that stimulates considerable scholarly interest and has received substantial attention from practitioners. Among different individual difference variables, there has been a growing interest in studying the connection between emotional intelligence (EI) and authentic leadership; nevertheless, most of the existing literature on this relation was atheoretical and the results for this relation were mixed. Thus, the objective of this study is to clarify the relation between EI and authentic leadership.A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the relation between EI and authentic leadership and the moderators that affect this relation.The results of the present study indicated that (1) EI is significantly and positively related to authentic leadership (overall EI: ρ = 0.49; ability EI: ρ = 0.08; self-report EI: ρ = 0.52; mixed EI: ρ = 0.49); (2) self-report EI and mixed EI have larger associations with authentic leadership than ability EI; and (3) the relation between EI and authentic leadership does not differ between male-dominated and female-dominated studies.The present study couches the relation between EI and authentic leadership in theories and identifies important moderators for this relation which explains the heterogeneity in effect sizes for this relation across studies.

AB - Authentic leadership is a popular leadership construct that stimulates considerable scholarly interest and has received substantial attention from practitioners. Among different individual difference variables, there has been a growing interest in studying the connection between emotional intelligence (EI) and authentic leadership; nevertheless, most of the existing literature on this relation was atheoretical and the results for this relation were mixed. Thus, the objective of this study is to clarify the relation between EI and authentic leadership.A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the relation between EI and authentic leadership and the moderators that affect this relation.The results of the present study indicated that (1) EI is significantly and positively related to authentic leadership (overall EI: ρ = 0.49; ability EI: ρ = 0.08; self-report EI: ρ = 0.52; mixed EI: ρ = 0.49); (2) self-report EI and mixed EI have larger associations with authentic leadership than ability EI; and (3) the relation between EI and authentic leadership does not differ between male-dominated and female-dominated studies.The present study couches the relation between EI and authentic leadership in theories and identifies important moderators for this relation which explains the heterogeneity in effect sizes for this relation across studies.

U2 - 10.1108/LODJ-02-2018-0066

DO - 10.1108/LODJ-02-2018-0066

M3 - Journal article

VL - 39

SP - 679

EP - 690

JO - Leadership and Organization Development Journal

JF - Leadership and Organization Development Journal

SN - 0143-7739

IS - 5

ER -