Turkish Adaptation of the Empowering Leadership Scale for Educational Organizations: A Validity and Reliability Study
Abstract
This
study aims to adapt Empowering Leadership Scale developed by Konczak, Stelly
and Trusty, and to carry out reliability and validity analyses for educational
organizations in Turkey. Linguistic validity studies were carried out, and as
it was proved to have linguistic equivalence, the scale was administered to 220
teachers working in Malatya in 2015-2016 academic year. As a consequence of
unreliable results, the sample size was
increased to 421 and statistical analyses were reiterated. Forms of the scale from the one-factor
structure to the seven-factor structure were tested and it was found that the
three-factor structure had
acceptable
fit values. At the end of the validity and reliability studies, a three-factor
Turkish form has been developed and it can be used as a valid and reliable
measurement tool to measure Empowering Leadership behaviors of school
principals.
Keywords
Empowerment,Empowering Leadership,Empowering Leadership Scale,School principal
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