Teachers’ self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism

Linking social justice leadership, transformational leadership, and psychological capital

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ID21784228
AuthorsMehmet Şükrü Bellibaş (0000-0003-1281-4493, corresponding author), Mahmut Polatcan (0000-0002-5181-0316), Izhak Berkovich (0000-0001-5710-3666)
Year2025
Publication date2025-06-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Management Administration & Leadership (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1741-1432 • E-ISSN: 1741-1440
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17411432251350794
OpenAlexW4411729867
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited67

This study examined the moderating influence of transformational leadership on the relationship between social justice leadership and teachers’ psychological capital to seek empirical evidence for transformative social justice leadership. The research was conducted with 991 teachers across 97 schools using multilevel structural equation modeling. The findings demonstrated significant positive associations between principals’ social justice leadership and transformational leadership practices with all dimensions of psychological capital: self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism. Furthermore, the interaction between social justice leadership and transformational leadership was positively associated with all dimensions of psychological capital. The study revealed that principals’ high levels of transformational leadership enhanced social justice leadership's capacity to improve teachers’ psychological capital. These findings highlight the potential of integrating transformational and social justice leadership into a unified framework, conceptualized as transformative social justice leadership, and its critical role in enhancing teachers’ self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism, particularly in times of intense educational and economic pressure

Leadership style · Optimism · Psychological resilience · Self-efficacy · Social capital · Sociology · Transactional leadership · Transformational leadership · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support

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