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Development and Preliminary Validation of the Interest in Leadership Scale

Author(s) -

Steele Andrea R.,

Day David V.

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244019900182

Subject(s) - transformational leadership , scale (ratio) , psychology , rasch model , construct (python library) , leadership development , social psychology , construct validity , empirical research , transactional leadership , applied psychology , psychometrics , public relations , political science , computer science , epistemology , developmental psychology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language

Interest pertains to an individual’s psychological arousal toward a topic, which is thought to motivate effort allocation and attention. Interest in leadership has been identified as a potential antecedent of leader development; however, supporting empirical evidence has been hindered by the lack of a relevant scale to measure the construct. Study 1 outlines the development of the Interest in Leadership Scale (ILS) using Rasch scale development principles. Study 2 establishes the predictive validity of the ILS with self-rated leadership emergence and transformational leadership behaviors. This measure is likely to prove useful in the future measurement of and research into the topic of interest in leadership.

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