Self-Compassion and Transformational Leadership

This dissertation in practice aimed to address the critical missing link in the relatively new research area of self-compassion by focusing specifically on the connection between self-compassion and transformational leadership behaviors. This quantitative correlational research study addressed that gap by determining if, and to what extent, a relationship exists between self-compassion, transformational leadership behaviors, and gender of heads of school and principals of independent schools in the United States. The hypothesis that was posed for this investigation was that there is a statistically significant relationship between self-compassion and transformational leadership behaviors after controlling for gender. The results showed self-compassion was significantly positively correlated with transformational leadership (r = .78, p < .001), indicating that participants with higher levels of self-compassion tended to have higher levels of transformational leadership behaviors. The aim of this study was to create a series of recommendations for school leaders and educational leadership programs, including requiring self-compassion training for new and veteran leaders and offering self-compassion training programs in a variety of settings.

Grantor dc:publisher

Creighton University

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Morehead, Heather

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Moon, Paul

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is retained by the Author. A non-exclusive distribution right is granted to Creighton University and to ProQuest following the publishing model selected above.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/134637

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:cdr.creighton.edu:10504/134637