INFLUENCE OF SELF CONCEPT AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY ON LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS HEADS IN KERALA, INDIA
Abstract
The present study tried to find out the influence of Self Concept and Emotional Maturity and their influence of interaction on Leadership Behaviour of secondary school Heads in Kerala in terms of their gender, age, experience and type of management of their school. The investigator approached 260 heads of the secondary schools throughout the Kerala to collect information regarding their Self Concept, Emotional Maturity and Leader Behaviour. The study found that the Self Concept of heads of secondary schools in Kerala does not have any significant influence on their Leadership Behavior for the total sample and subsamples of males, females, age group one, experience group one, experience group two and government schools. But the influence is significant in the case of age group two heads and the heads of aided secondary schools. The influence of Emotional Maturity on Leadership Behavior of heads for the total sample and subsamples of males, age group two, experience group one, experience group two and heads of government schools is significant whereas it is not significant in the case of females, age group one and heads of aided schools. The influence of interaction of Self Concept and Emotional Maturity on Leadership Behaviour is not significant for the total sample and all the subsamples other than male heads and it is significant in the case of male heads. The study also reveals that the Self Concept and Emotional Maturity jointly contribute significantly in Predicting Leadership Behaviour of heads of Secondary Schools in Kerala. The percentage of joint contribution of Self Concept and Emotional Maturity in predicting Leadership Behaviour is 13.31 percent. The individual contributions of Self Concept and Emotional Maturity in predicting Leadership Behaviour is 0.024 percent and 13.14 percent respectively. The study recommends for organizing various effective training programme for heads of the school to enhance their Self Concept, Emotional Maturity and Leadership Behaviour.
Article visualizations:
Keywords
References
Ahmad, J., Ghazali, M. & Hassan, A. (2011, July). The Relationship between Self Concept and Response towards Student’s Academic Achievement among Students Leaders in University Putra Malaysia. International Journal of Instruction, Vol.4, No.2. Retrieved Dec 22, 2012, from http://www.e-iji.net/dosyalar/iji_2011_2_0.pdf.
Alsaeedi, Farraj & Male, Trevor (2013). Transformational Leadership and Globalization: Attitudes of School Principals in Kuwait. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service, No. : EJ1019235).
Bass, B. M. & Riggio, R. E. (2006). Transformational Leadership (Second Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bennis, W. & Nanus, B. (1985). Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge. New York: Happer and Row Publishers Inc.
Bernard, H. W. (1965). Psychology of Learning and Teaching. New York: McGraw Hill.
Brown, R. T. (2003). Self-Leadership and Effective -Leadership Behaviours, as observed by subordinates. Doctoral Thesis, Regent University, Dissertation Abstracts International.
Burns, R. B. (1979). The self-concept in theory, measurement, development and behaviour. London: Longman.
Chadha, N. K. (1984). Manual for Chadha Self Concept Scale. Agra: Psychological Research Cell.
Colman, A. M. (2007). Oxford Dictionary of Psychology. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Edwin, S. J. (2008). Dictionary of Education. New Delhi: Ivy Publishing House
Finnigan, S. K. (2012). Principal Leadership in Low-Performing Schools: A Closer Look through the Eyes of Teachers. Education and Urban Society. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service, No. EJ 956 208).
Good, C. V. (Ed.). (1973). Dictionary of Education (3rd Ed.). New York: Mc Graw Hill
Halpin, A. W. (1957). Manual for the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire. Columbus, OH: Bureau of Business Research, Ohio State University.
Hattie, J. (1992). Self-Concept. Hills dale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
House, R. J. (1977). A 1976 Theory of charismatic leadership. In J, J. Hunt. & L, L. Larson (Eds.). Leadership: The Cutting Age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Jago, A. G. (1982). Leadership: Perspectives in theory and research. Management Science, 28(3), 315-336.
Keith, M. A. (2009). The Lived Experiences of Secondary School Principals with Respect to Their Perceptions of the Influence of Emotional Intelligence on Their Leadership: A Phenomenological Study, ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Lamar University-Beaumont. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service, No. ED 527 029). .
Leadership and Change Management. (2004). Hyderabad: ICMR.
Linda, H., Blaine, H. & James C. H. (2007). Effective leadership through emotional maturity. Academic Leadership, 5.
Notman, R. (2009, Sep). Successful School Principals: Factors That Impact on Their Success. A paper presented at the CCEAM International Conference, “Think Globally Act Locally: A Challenge to Education Leaders”, Durban, South Africa.
Purkey, W. W. (1988). An Overview of Self-Concept Theory for Counselors. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service, No .ED 304 630).
Raj, K. (2001). Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons.
Rowe, W. G. (2007). Cases in Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Singh, Y. & Bhargava, M. (2010). Manual for Emotional Maturity Scale. Agra: National Psychological Corporation.
Skariah, S. (1994). Study of creativity in student teachers in relation to their self concept, attitude towards teaching and success in teaching. Unpublished doctoral Dissertation, University of Kerala, Kerala.
Srilatha, B & Vanaja, M. (2013). Emotional maturity, social maturity and moral judgment of the student teachers of Guntur District. Doctoral Dissertation, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andra Pradesh. Retrived Dec 16, 2013, from http://hdl.handle.net/10603/8071.
Stogdill, R. M. (1948). Personal factors associated with leadership: A survey of the literature. Journal of Psychology, 25, 35-71.
Stogdill, R. M. (1950). Leadership, membership and organization. Psychological Bulletin, 47, 1–14.Terry, G. R. (1988). Principles of Management. Homewood: Richard D. Irwin, Inc
Vilkinas, T. & Ladyshewsky, K. R. (2012). Leadership Behaviour and Effectiveness of Academic Program Directors in Australian Universities. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service, No. EJ 953 605).
Walter, D. & Smitson, W.(1974). The Meaning of Emotional Maturity. MH. Winter, 58.9- 11.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v0i0.434
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2018 Rafeedali E.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright © 2015-2023. European Journal of Education Studies (ISSN 2501 - 1111) is a registered trademark of Open Access Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
This journal is a serial publication uniquely identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) serial number certificate issued by Romanian National Library (Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei). All the research works are uniquely identified by a CrossRef DOI digital object identifier supplied by indexing and repository platforms. All authors who send their manuscripts to this journal and whose articles are published on this journal retain full copyright of their articles. All the research works published on this journal are meeting the Open Access Publishing requirements and can be freely accessed, shared, modified, distributed and used in educational, commercial and non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
