THE MEDIATING EFFECTS OF EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL HEADS AND TEACHER DISPOSITIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CREATIVITY-NURTURING BEHAVIOR AND FLEXIBILITY AMONG PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Kyra N. Magunot, Lyndon A. Quines

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The main purpose of the study is to determine whether empowering leadership and teacher dispositions can mediate the relationship between creativity-nurturing behavior and flexibility among public elementary teachers. This quantitative, non-experimental correlational study examined the mediating effects of empowering leadership and teacher dispositions on the relationship between creativity-nurturing behavior and flexibility among 335 public elementary school teachers in Davao del Sur. Specifically, the big schools under Cluster 1, Cluster 2, Cluster 3, and Cluster 4 in Davao del Sur Division. Cluster sampling technique was used in the study, with statistical tools including mean, standard deviation, Pearson r, and path analysis. The findings on creativity-nurturing behavior, flexibility, empowering leadership, and teacher dispositions are very high. Moreover, there are significant relationships among creativity-nurturing behavior and empowering leadership; empowering leadership and flexibility; creativity-nurturing behavior and teacher dispositions; teacher dispositions and flexibility; and creativity-nurturing behavior and flexibility. Furthermore, empowering leadership and teacher dispositions resulted in no significant combined mediation of the relationship between creativity-nurturing behavior and flexibility. The findings may contribute to the education of creativity-nurturing behavior, flexibility, empowering leadership, and teacher dispositions.

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creativity-nurturing behavior; flexibility; empowering leadership; teacher dispositions; mediation analysis; public elementary teachers; Philippines

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