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Individual Differences and Educational Leadership

  • Anna Kanape-Willingshofer
  • , Sabine Bergner

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Abstract

The chapter discusses the relevance of individual differences in personality traits for the study of school leadership, especially with regard to leadership success. Findings from psychological leadership research have shown that, amongst others, personality, cognitive and emotional intelligence, as well as creativity predict leadership outcome variables. We investigate in how far these traits have been able to predict leadership success across different occupations and also across different situational and methodological conditions. In addition studies on the relationship of individual trait differences and school principals’ effectiveness are discussed. The chapter shows that individual differences’ research holds potential for educational leadership, but further studies are needed to draw conclusions about the potential cognitive ability, personality traits, emotional intelligence as well as creativity hold for predicting leadership success of school principals.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultidimensional Perspectives on Principal Leadership Effectiveness
Editors Kadir Beycioglu & Petros Pashiardis
Place of PublicationHershey
PublisherIGI Global
Pages171-206
Number of pages35
Publication statusPublished - 2015

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education

Fields of science

  • 503 Educational Sciences
  • 503002 Applied education
  • 503007 Didactics
  • 503011 Subject didactics of humanities
  • 503014 Subject didactics of social sciences
  • 503018 University didactics
  • 503033 Political education
  • 504 Sociology
  • 504005 Educational sociology
  • 504007 Empirical social research
  • 501002 Applied psychology
  • 501005 Developmental psychology
  • 501016 Educational psychology
  • 501021 Social psychology
  • 501 Psychology
  • 501004 Differential psychology
  • 501013 Motivational psychology
  • 501015 Organisational psychology
  • 503001 General education
  • 503006 Educational research
  • 503025 School pedagogy
  • 503032 Teaching and learning research
  • 506009 Organisation theory
  • 509004 Evaluation research
  • 509011 Organisational development

JKU Focus areas

  • Social Systems, Markets and Welfare States
  • Social and Economic Sciences (in general)

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