Leadership and students’ academic success: mediating effects of self-efficacy and self-determination
Autor: | Lovanirina Ramboarison-Lalao, Kais Gannouni |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
Self-efficacy
business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences 050301 education 050109 social psychology Academic achievement Affect (psychology) Structural equation modeling Education Personal development Instructional leadership Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Leadership style 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business Psychology 0503 education Social psychology health care economics and organizations Autonomy media_common |
Zdroj: | International Journal of Leadership in Education. 21:66-79 |
ISSN: | 1464-5092 1360-3124 |
DOI: | 10.1080/13603124.2015.1123300 |
Popis: | When exploring the effects of leadership on students, most studies have focused on either how leadership affects the students’ academic outcomes or how it contributes to their personal development. This study merged both approaches and aimed to measure the mediating effects of self-efficacy and self-determination among leadership, students’ intentions to persist and GPA. A Structural Equation Analysis was applied to a data-set of 1009 students from 39 countries to examine these relationships. The results showed a full mediating effect of academic self-efficacy between leadership and students’ intentions to persist and between leadership and GPA, and revealed a full mediating effect of self-determination through autonomy and relatedness constructs between leadership and intention to persist. This result implies that even though leadership does not directly affect students’ academic outcomes, it enhances their confidence and motivation, which provides them with the inner drive to aim high, persevere... |
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