Psychological Characteristics of Leadership as a Component of the Elitism of Personality

Modern trends in society dictate the need for continuous development, initiative, responsibility for decisions. In the overwhelming majority, the acceptance of responsibility by society is ready to transfer to the leader. Despite the fact, that domestic and foreign theories of leadership failed to identify a “universal” set of leadership traits, nevertheless, the elite subject must have certain leadership qualities that accompany his elite-oriented activity. Leadership as a category has long gone beyond psychology. In the article numerous studies of leadership qualities were analized and the key qualities of a leader were identified. Among them there are socio-psychological maturity, need-motivational maturity, emotional and strong-will maturity and intellectual and creative maturity. The article formulates a typology of personality spaces and presents a criteria-based model of leadership psychology based on the key qualities of a leader and which possess highly competitive advantages that has been proved by the research conducted.