Professor Paul Whiteley, the study's author and director of the Essex Centre for the Study of Integrity, said levels of integrity were important because they were linked to a person's sense of civic duty.
But at the collegiate level when you are still talking about young men and women putting themselves on the line for their universities, there must be some minimum levels of decorum and integrity which are upheld.
Rather than gung-ho charisma, the attributes leaders need are an ability to work with integrity and listen carefully at all levels, political agility, rapid anticipation of events and situations, and determination to seek a positive conclusion whatever the obstacles.