The Relationship between Intellectual Thinking Tendencies and Creative Leadership of Primary School Administrators

Cenk Yoldaş, Remzi Yildirim

Abstract


This study aimed to determine the relationship between intellectual thinking tendencies and creative leadership of primary school administrators. In this context, it was tried to investigate how intellectual thinking tendencies influence creative leadership. The study was conducted in the general survey model, which is widely used in quantitative research methods. The participants of study consist of school administrators working in primary schools affiliated to Manisa, Yunusemre District Directorate of National Education. The study was conducted in the fall term of 2022-2023 academic year. The data was collected by “Intellectual Thinking Tendency Scale” and “Creative Leadership Scale” and was analyzed with SPSS 25 package program by taking the significance level as.05. Parametric analysis techniques were used in the analysis of the data. In this meaning: by minimum, maximum, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation values for descriptive statistics; by independent sample t-test for the differences in genders, administrative duties, and administrative seniorities; by One-way ANOVA Analysis for the differences of professional seniorities and professional fields were analyzed. The relation between intellectual thinking tendencies and creative leadership was analyzed with Pearson Correlation Coefficient. According to the results, primary school administrators’ intellectual thinking tendencies and creative leadership levels were found as high; according to their genders, administrative duties, administrative seniorities, professional seniorities, and professional fields, no meaningful differences were found. As the last result, the relationship between intellectual thinking tendencies and creative leadership of primary school administrators was observed in high scores.

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Primary School Administrators, Intellectual Thinking, Creative Leadership

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