Aspirational leaders help us change: Ingroup prototypicality enables effective group psychotherapy leadership.
group norms
group psychotherapy
group psychotherapy leadership
ingroup prototypicality
normative change
Journal
The British journal of clinical psychology
ISSN: 0144-6657
Titre abrégé: Br J Clin Psychol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8105533
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2023
Mar 2023
Historique:
received:
02
03
2022
accepted:
10
11
2022
pubmed:
3
12
2022
medline:
10
2
2023
entrez:
2
12
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Research suggests that leaders are effective when they are ingroup prototypical (represent the identity of the group they seek to lead). However, it is unclear whether leaders should represent the group's current identity ("who we are") or aspired identity ("who we want to be"). This study investigated which of these forms of prototypicality best predicted leadership effectiveness in group psychotherapy. Longitudinal study. 519 questionnaire responses were obtained from 112 women attending a four-session body acceptance program. Focal measures included participant ratings of how often they thought their psychotherapy leaders and fellow group members would (a) engage in dieting thoughts and behaviours and (b) approve of dieting. Given the program's body acceptance focus, leader prototypicality was conceptualized as the difference between participants' perceptions of how often their leaders, versus group members, would diet at the start of therapy. Leadership effectiveness was conceptualized as reductions in perceived group approval of dieting across therapy. Two therapeutic outcomes were considered: body satisfaction and dieting intentions. A mixed-effects repeated measures analysis indicated that group approval of dieting decreased more rapidly when participants perceived their leaders to be aspirational (thought that group leaders dieted less frequently than group members) than when they perceived them to be exemplary (thought that group leaders dieted as frequently as group members). Changes in group approval of dieting mediated the relationship between leader prototypicality and improved therapeutic outcomes. Findings suggest that group psychotherapy leaders may increase their effectiveness by striving to embody their group's aspired identity.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
243-259Subventions
Organisme : Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
Organisme : National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship
ID : 1173270
Organisme : Australian National University
Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. British Journal of Clinical Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society.
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