Developing a Headmasters’ Paternalistic Leadership Behaviours Scale in Turkey

Abstract

This research aims to develop a reliable and valid assessment tool which measures the headmaster’s paternalistic leadership behaviours. The research study group consists of 390 teachers who are working at public secondary schools in Mardin/Turkey during 2015-2016 academic year. After the exploratory factor analysis which is employed for determining the scale’s construct validity, a construct formed of 22 items and four factors (benevolent leadership, moral leadership, authoritarian leadership, exploitative leadership) is obtained. It is confirmed that each factor’s variance ratio is respectively 38,568%, 4,800%, 6,730% and 9,842%. Each of the four factors clarifies the variance total and it is determined as 59,939%. As a result of the confirmatory factor analysis, the scale is confirmed to have sufficient compliance index values. On the other hand, The Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient was .926 for the first factor; .872 for the second factor; .610 for the third factor; .619 for the fourth factor and .898 for the whole scale. The obtained findings are found to be within the acceptable limits. The results of all validity and reliability analyses show that the scale can be used as a valid and reliable measurement tool in the studies where the teachers are in the study group.

Keywords: Paternalistic leadership scale, Headmaster, Secondary school