The existing literature has explored the role and importance of personality traits in leader prototypicality. However, limited research exists concerning the link between personality traits and leader emergence or prototypicality in ad hoc teams. Based on the relational leadership and attachment literature, we examine whether leader attachment orientations can serve as antecedents of leader prototypicality in ad hoc teams. Utilizing an ad hoc problem-solving task featuring a round-robin design in a sample of 197 participants, we find that individuals with a dominant avoidant attachment orientation were more likely to be perceived as leader-like or leader prototypical. In comparison, individuals with a dominant anxious attachment orientation were much less likely to emerge as leader prototypical. We interpret these findings in alignment with attachment theory and relational leadership and discuss the role of relational personality traits in ad hoc teams with no formally appointed leader.

现有文献探讨了人格特质在领导者原型中的作用和重要性。然而，关于人格特质与特设团队中领导者出现或原型之间的联系的研究有限。基于关系型领导和依恋文献，我们检验了领导依恋取向是否可以作为特设团队中领导原型的前因。在 197 名参与者的样本中利用具有循环设计的特殊问题解决任务，我们发现具有显性回避依恋倾向的个人更有可能被视为领导者或领导者原型。相比之下，具有主导焦虑依恋倾向的人不太可能成为领导者的原型。