Topic 5 - Stogdill

Question 1

How many studies did they carry out review for?

Answer 1

124

Question 2

What did they identify from the reviews?

Answer 2

Physical, personality and cognitive differences between leaders and non-leaders

Question 3

What is chronological age findings?

Answer 3

The evidence for this was contradictory. Leaders in six of the studies were found to be younger but were older in ten of the students. In other studies, there was either no difference or it differed depending on the situation

Question 4

What were the height and weight findings?

Answer 4

There was a weak positive relationship between both height and weight and weight and leadership ability

Question 5

What were the leadership classes?

Answer 5

Capacity, acheivement, responsibility, participation, status

Question 6

What is capacity?

Answer 6

Intelligence, alertness, judgement

Question 7

What is achievement?

Answer 7

Knowledge, scholarship

Question 8

What is responsibility?

Answer 8

Self-confidence, aggressiveness

Question 9

What is participation?

Answer 9

Activity, sociability

Question 10

What is status?

Answer 10

Socio-economic position, popularity

Question 11

What trait do good leaders have?

Answer 11

Stable traits