One of the classic relationships in personality psychology is that extraversion is associated with emerging as an informal leader. However, recent findings raise questions about the longevity of extraverted individuals as emergent leaders. Here, we adopt a social network churn perspective to study the number of people entering, remaining in, and leaving the leadership networks of individuals over time. We propose that extraverted individuals endure as emergent leaders in networks over time, but experience significant changes in the people being led, including the loss of people who once considered them a leader but now no longer do. In Study 1 (N = 545), extraverted individuals had a larger number of new and remaining people in their leadership networks, but also lost more people, above and beyond differences in initial leadership network size. In Study 2 (N = 764), we replicated and extended these results in an organizational sample while controlling for alternative explanations such as formal rank, network size, self-monitoring, and narcissism. Extraversion predicted the number of people entering, remaining in, and leaving leadership networks over time. Our findings suggest that while extraverted individuals tend to emerge as leaders, they are also more likely to experience greater network churn-they tend to lead different people over time and leave people in their wake who once perceived them a leader but now no longer do. We discuss the challenges posed by this network churn perspective for extraverted emergent leaders and highlight its importance for our understanding of extraversion and emergent leadership. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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重新审视外向性和领导力的出现：社交网络流失的观点。

人格心理学中的经典关系之一是外向性与成为非正式领导者有关。然而，最近的研究结果提出了关于外向个人作为新兴领导者的寿命的问题。在这里，我们采用社交网络流失的视角来研究随着时间的推移进入、留在和离开个人领导网络的人数。我们建议外向的人随着时间的推移在网络中作为新兴领导者而存在，但被领导的人会经历重大变化，包括曾经认为他们是领导者但现在不再如此的人的流失。在研究 1 (N = 545) 中，外向的人在他们的领导网络中拥有更多的新人和剩余的人，但也失去了更多的人，超出了初始领导网络规模的差异。在研究 2 (N = 764) 中，我们在组织样本中复制和扩展了这些结果，同时控制了其他解释，例如正式排名、网络规模、自我监控和自恋。外向性预测随着时间的推移进入、留在和离开领导网络的人数。我们的研究结果表明，虽然性格外向的人往往会成为领导者，但他们也更有可能经历更大的网络流失——随着时间的推移，他们往往会领导不同的人，而让那些曾经认为他们是领导者但现在不再如此的人留在他们身后。我们讨论了这种网络流失观点对外向的新兴领导者带来的挑战，并强调了它对于我们理解外向和新兴领导的重要性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。