Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale in order to determine the competencies of school managers in managing the emotions of teachers during the change process in schools. In this respect, an item pool, based on the literature and consisting of 52 items, was presented to get the experts’ views. The final-form involving 40 items were constituted in line with the recommendations and suggestions and implemented among 312 teachers working in Uşak. The construct validity of the scale was tested with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In the result of (EFA), “The scale of emotions management competencies in the change process” which consists of 21 items, were appointed to have three factors. In addition to this, it was revealed that the scale explained the 77.11 percent of variance. In the analysis of items, it was revealed that item-total correlations and item distinctiveness were high. (CFA), which was implemented to confirm the construct, demonstrated the high levels of goodness of fit indexes in three- factor construct of the scale.  The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients of the factors and the whole scale construct points that scale is reliable. In line with these findings, it can be concluded that the scale is a valid and reliable tool which can be used to determine the competencies of school managers in managing the emotions in the change process.

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