Familiarity at Work: Awesome or Contempt? Assessing the Interplay among Familiarity, Leadership and Team Identification
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Background
2.1. Leadership Models Grounded in Relational and Emotional Factors
2.2. Group Member Prototypicality and Its Relevance in the Military
2.3. Familiarity at Work: Conceptual Framework and Multistakeholder Approach
2.4. Familiarity at Work as a Predictor of Leadership and Social Identity
2.5. Does Combat Experience Matter for Familiarity at Work and Its Outcomes?
3. Method
3.1. Participants and Procedure
3.2. Measures
3.2.1. Familiarity at Work Scale
3.2.2. Group Member Prototypicality
3.2.3. Transformational Leadership
3.2.4. Leader–Member Exchange
3.2.5. Servant Leadership
3.2.6. Authentic Leadership
3.2.7. Control Variables
3.3. Statistical Procedures
4. Results
4.1. Descriptive Statistics and Correlations
4.2. Test of Measurement Model on the Total Sample
4.3. Goodness of Fit for the Single Groups
4.4. Test of Measurement Invariance across Groups
4.5. Multigroup Structural Equation Models
4.6. Post Hoc Analyses for Quadratic Effects
5. Discussion
5.1. Theoretical and Practical Implications
5.2. Limitations and Future Directions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | M | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
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| 1.91 (1.96) | 0.75 (0.70) | 0.87 (0.81) | 0.25 ** | 0.38 ** | 0.19 ** | 0.40 ** | 0.42 ** | 0.41 ** | 0.39 ** | 0.13 * |
| 3.56 (3.31) | 0.91 (0.92) | 0.18 * | 0.88 (0.87) | 0.03 | 0.20 ** | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.002 | −0.23 ** |
| 1.64 (1.81) | 0.85 (0.90) | 0.21 ** | 0.11 | 0.91 (90) | 0.10 | 0.15 * | 0.10 | 0.14 * | 0.14 * | 0.06 |
| 4.85 (5.06) | 0.94 (0.95) | 0.22 ** | 0.13 | 0.01 | 0.75 (0.75) | 0.22 ** | 0.26 ** | 0.21 ** | 0.19 ** | 0.000 |
| 3.07 (3.05) | 0.86 (0.87) | 0.447 ** | 0.07 | −0.01 | 0.25 ** | 0.88 (0.90) | 0.87 ** | 0.81 ** | 0.80 ** | 0.02 |
| 3.33 (3.29) | 0.91 (0.91) | 0.46 ** | 0.09 | −0.01 | 0.32 ** | 0.84 ** | 0.93 (0.93) | 0.83 ** | 0.85 ** | 0.03 |
| 3.12 (3.12) | 1.02 (1.0) | 0.44 ** | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.30 ** | 0.79 ** | 0.85 ** | 0.91 (0.92) | 0.81 ** | 0.05 |
| 2.95 (2.98) | 0.92 (0.90) | 0.44 ** | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.25 ** | 0.77 ** | 0.84 ** | 0.81 ** | 0.93 (0.93) | 0.03 |
| 1.09 (1.50) | 0.299 (0.50) | 0.003 | −0.21 ** | −0.01 | 0.01 * | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.14 * | 0.09 | - |
Model Fit | Model Difference | ||||||||
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Models(M) | χ2 | df | RMSEA | CFI | SRMR | ΔM | ΔCFI | Δdf | Δχ2 |
ModelCombat | 493.092 | 224 | 0.073 | 0.932 | 0.065 | ||||
ModelNon-combat | 384.464 | 224 | 0.059 | 0.956 | 0.055 | ||||
M1: Configural | 877.605 | 448 | 0.066 | 0.943 | 0.060 | ||||
M2: Metric | 896.813 | 464 | 0.065 | 0.943 | 0.063 | M2-M1 | 0.000 | 16 | 19.208 |
M3: Scalar | 928.276 | 480 | 0.066 | 0.941 | 0.063 | M3-M2 | −0.002 | 16 | 31.463 |
M4: SEM for Combat | 457.098 | 234 | 0.065 | 0.945 | 0.067 | ||||
M5: SEM for Non-combat | 352.863 | 234 | 0.050 | 0.968 | 0.057 | ||||
M6: Single analysis across groups with no constraints | 932.308 | 494 | 0.064 | 0.943 | 0.078 | ||||
M7: Single analysis across groups with constraints | 953.272 | 514 | 0.063 | 0.943 | 0.080 | M7-M6 | 0.000 | 20 | 20.964 |
M8: Single analysis Total sample | 528.693 | 234 | 0.054 | 0.960 | 0.055 |
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Petitta, L.; Lo Castro, I.; Guerriero, A. Familiarity at Work: Awesome or Contempt? Assessing the Interplay among Familiarity, Leadership and Team Identification. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 974. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13120974
Petitta L, Lo Castro I, Guerriero A. Familiarity at Work: Awesome or Contempt? Assessing the Interplay among Familiarity, Leadership and Team Identification. Behavioral Sciences. 2023; 13(12):974. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13120974
Chicago/Turabian StylePetitta, Laura, Isabella Lo Castro, and Anna Guerriero. 2023. "Familiarity at Work: Awesome or Contempt? Assessing the Interplay among Familiarity, Leadership and Team Identification" Behavioral Sciences 13, no. 12: 974. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13120974
APA StylePetitta, L., Lo Castro, I., & Guerriero, A. (2023). Familiarity at Work: Awesome or Contempt? Assessing the Interplay among Familiarity, Leadership and Team Identification. Behavioral Sciences, 13(12), 974. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13120974