Predicting Leadership Activities: The Role of Flexibility

Author(s): Roni Reiter-Palmon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.65030/idr.01011

Abstract: This paper investigated the role of flexibility in predicting adolescent leadership activities among 186 undergraduate students. Two measures of flexibility, behavioral flexibility and cognitive flexibility, were developed and entered in a regression equation, after social skills and academic ability. The results suggest that behavioral and cognitive flexibility are distinct constructs and that both contribute uniquely to the prediction of leadership above and beyond social skills and academic ability.

Keywords: Adolescent leadership; Behavioral flexibility; Cognitive flexibility; Social skills; Academic ability; Individual differences

Pages: 124-136

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