Monzani, LucasBibic, KiraHaslam, S. AlexanderKerschreiter, RudolfWilson Lemoine, Jérémy E.Steffens, Niklas K.Akfirat, Serap ArslanBallada, Christine Joy A.Bazarov, TahirAruta, John Jamir Benzon R.Avanzi, LorenzoBunjak, AldijanaČerne, MatejEdelmann, Charlotte M.Epitropaki, OlgaFransen, KatrienGarcía-Ael, CristinaGiessner, SteffenGleibs, IlkaGodlewska-Werner, DorotaKark, RonitGonzalez, Ana LaguiaLam, HodarLupina-Wegener, AnnaMarkovits, YannisMaskor, MazlanAlonso, Fernando Jorge MoleroLeon, Juan Antonio MorianoNeves, PedroPauknerová, DanielaRetowski, SylwiuszRoland-Lévy, ChristineSamekin, AdilSekiguchi, TomokiStory, JoanaStouten, JeroenSultanova, LiliaTatachari, Srinivasanvan Bunderen, LisanneVan Dijk, DinaWong, Sut I.van Dick, Rolf2024-01-122024-01-122024-120162-895XPURE: 81064133PURE UUID: 0de3bc91-6ba2-43a9-911b-8b1f2bd28a40Scopus: 85181453481WOS: 001136612900001http://hdl.handle.net/10362/162217Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors. Political Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society of Political Psychology.Identity leadership captures leaders efforts to create and promote a sense of shared group membership (i.e., a sense of “we” and of “us”) among followers. The present research report tests this claim by drawing on data from 26 countries that are part of the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project to examine the relationship between political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior (N = 6787). It also examines the contributions of trust and economic inequality to this relationship. Political leaders' identity leadership (PLIL) was positively associated with respondents' people-oriented civic citizenship behaviors (CCB-P) in 20 of 26 countries and civic citizenship behaviors aimed at one's country (CCB-C) in 23 of 26 countries. Mediational analyses also confirmed the indirect effects of PLIL via trust in fellow citizens on both CCB-P (in 25 out of 26 countries) and CCB-C (in all 26 countries). Economic inequality moderated these effects such that the main and indirect effects of trust in one's fellow citizens on CCB-C were stronger in countries with higher economic inequality. This interaction effect was not observed for CCB-P. The study highlights the importance of identity leadership and trust in fellow citizens in promoting civic citizenship behavior, especially in the context of economic inequality.322401817engcivic citizenship behavioreconomic inequalityidentity leadershipsocial identitytrustSocial PsychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyClinical PsychologySociology and Political SciencePhilosophyPolitical Science and International RelationsSDG 10 - Reduced Inequalitiesjournal article10.1111/pops.12952https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85181453481