Abstract:

The present study aims to identify the relationships between primary school managers' interpersonal cognitive distortions and managerial efficacy behaviors.School managers' perceptions of interpersonal cognitive distortions were collected by means of a scale developed by Hamamcı and Büyüköztürk (2003) and their efficacy behaviors were obtained by means of "Cognitive Distortions Related to Relationships Scale" developed by Şahin (2000). The sample comprised 250 participants, 50 of whom were primary school managers, and 200 of whom were primary school teachers School managers were asked about their interpersonal cognitive distortions and the teachers serving in the same school were asked about school managers' managerial efficacy behaviors and the relationship between these two variables was analyzed on SPSS through Pearson Product Moment Correlation.As a result of the analyses, a negative relationship was found between school managers' interpersonal cognitive distortions in "Mind Reading" and managerial efficacy behaviors in the subdimensions of Educational Leadership, Research and Professional Development, Human Resources Management, Communication, Student Affairs, School Administration and Personality Traits.

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