Does influence beget autonomy? Clarifying the relationship between social and personal power

Leach, S.; Weick, M.; Lammers, J.

doi:10.1002/jts5.5

Does influence beget autonomy? Clarifying the relationship between social and personal power

Leach, S.; Weick, M.; Lammers, J.

Authors

S. Leach

Professor Mario Weick mario.weick@durham.ac.uk
Professor

J. Lammers

Abstract

We iteratively develop and test a model to clarify the relationship between both high and low levels of social (influence) and personal (autonomy) power. A meta-analysis synthesising primary data (n = 298) and secondary data (n = 498) found that impaired personal power coincided with impaired social power, but not vice versa. Unexpectedly, elevated social power did not coincide with elevated personal power, suggesting that the association between influence and autonomy attenuates with increasing levels of power. Predictions arising from the meta-analysis and our revised theoretical model were supported in a subsequent study (n = 266). We discuss implications of these findings and avenues for future research.

Citation

Leach, S., Weick, M., & Lammers, J. (2017). Does influence beget autonomy? Clarifying the relationship between social and personal power. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 1(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.5

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 9, 2017
Online Publication Date	Jul 14, 2017
Publication Date	Jul 14, 2017
Deposit Date	Sep 12, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Sep 18, 2018
Journal	Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	1
Issue	1
Pages	5-14
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.5
Keywords	Power, Influence, Autonomy.
Related Public URLs	http://kar.kent.ac.uk/61676/

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Leach, S., Weick, M. & Lammers, J. (2017). Does influence beget autonomy? Clarifying the relationship between social and personal power. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology 1(1): 5-14, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.5. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.