Abstract:

The aim of the research is to reveal the relationship between the authentic leadership behaviors of school principals and the positive psychological capital of teachers, working in public primary and secondary schools and whether the authentic leadership behaviors of school principals are a predictor of teachers' positive psychological capital in line with teachers' opinions. The study group consists of 354 voluntary teachers who work in the districts of Aksu, Döşmealtı, Kepez, Konyaaltı and Muratpaşa in Antalya province in the 2020-2021 academic year."Authentic Leadership Scale" and "Psychological Capital Scale" were used in thr research. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS 25.0 program. In the validity and reliability analyze of the scales, confirmatory factor analysis, CFA, was performed using the Mplus statistical program. According to the research findings, it was concluded that the authentic leadership behaviors of the school principals and the average scores of the teachers' positive psychological capital levels were high. According to the result of the correlation analysis performed to analyze the relationship between the authentic leadership behaviors of school principals and the positive psychological capital levels of teachers, a significant moderate positive relationship emerged between these two variables. According to the results of the regression analysis, it was concluded that the authentic leadership behaviors of the school principals predicted the positive psychological capital of the teachers.

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