Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The relationship between Chinese preschool principal leadership styles and teacher leadership: Exploring the mediating effect of psychological capital |
| Authors: |
Limin Zhang, Tingting Wu, Lijia Liu, Ping Ren, Chaopai Lin |
| Source: |
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 13 (2022) |
| Publisher Information: |
Frontiers Media S.A., 2022. |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Psychology |
| Subject Terms: |
early childhood education, principal leadership styles, teacher leadership, psychological capital, teacher education, Psychology, BF1-990 |
| More Details: |
Enhancing teacher leadership is not only one of the approaches to improving teaching and learning, but it is also essential to the success of education reform. Based on leader-member exchange theory, 294 preschool teachers in China were surveyed, and a structural equation model was established to explore the relationship between the participating teachers' principal leadership style, teacher leadership and psychological capital. The findings revealed a significant positive correlation between transformational and transactional leadership styles and preschool teacher leadership. The laissez-faire leadership style had no correlation with preschool teacher leadership. The transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style were significantly and positively correlated with psychological capital, while the laissez-faire leadership style was significantly and negatively correlated with psychological capital. The transformational leadership style can positively influence preschool teacher leadership directly and indirectly through psychological capital; and the transactional leadership style can only positively influence preschool teacher leadership indirectly through the mediating role of psychological capital. Preschool teachers' leadership can neither be directly influenced by a laissez-faire leadership style nor be indirectly influenced through the mediating role of psychological capital. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1664-1078 |
| Relation: |
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1006184/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1006184 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/330fee25c79645b382ea7a2290b212df |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.330fee25c79645b382ea7a2290b212df |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
