The relationship between principals’ transformational leadership and elementary school teachers’ learned helplessness ─ Teachers in Yunlin County as an Example

• Main Authors: Wang, Yun-Chu, 王韻筑
• Other Authors: Lin,Yong-Fong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gv9thb

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教學專業發展數位學習碩士在職專班 === 103 === The main purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between principals’ transformational leadership and elementary school teachers’ learned helplessness, take teachers in Yunlin County as an example. In this study, quantitative research method was conducted to answer the research questions. Questionnaire survey was used on elementary teachers in both mountain and coastal regions of Yunlin County. Research tools included the scales of “Transformational Leadership” and "Learned Helplessness". The data were underwent statistical analyses including descriptive statistics, item analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, ANOVA analysis, single-factor multivariate analysis of variance and Pearson product-moment correlation. The main findings of this study are: 1. In Yunlin County, teachers well understand principals’ transitional leadership currently; teachers’ sense of Learned Helplessness is low. 2. Transformational leadership will negatively affect teacher's sense of Learned Helplessness. 3. The findings to the predictions of teachers’ sense of Learned Helplessness in terms of elementary school teachers’ personal background in Yunlin County and principals’ transformational leadership are as follows: (a) the principal ‘s individual consideration have negative effect on teachers’ sense of Learned Helplessness. (b) Using gender as variable, male teachers have higher sense of Learned Helplessness.