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August 16, 2026Social Responsibility Journal

How personal values shape sustainable leadership: the roles of self-efficacy, moral identity and social support

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YCYoungkeun Choi

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Survey analysis demonstrates that personal values drive sustainable leadership through self-efficacy and social support in managers, highlighting psychological pathways for organizational...

Key Points

  • To examine how managers' personal environmental and social values translate into sustainability leadership behavior through self-efficacy, moral identity, and social support.
  • Surveyed N=247 middle and senior managers across multiple industries in South Korea.
  • Tested hypothesized mediation and moderation models using structural equation modeling, bootstrapping, and hierarchical regression analyses.
  • Environmental and social responsibility values significantly associated with sustainability-related self-efficacy, which positively predicted sustainability leadership behavior.
  • Moral identity indirectly related to leadership behavior through self-efficacy, while social support significantly strengthened the association between self-efficacy and leadership actions.

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Youngkeun Choi (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8179bcf2fb91fc834ad157https://doi.org/10.1108/srj-04-2026-0465
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