The Mediating Factors on the relationship between Social Factors and Female Administrators? Leadership in Public high schools under Shenyang City
Keywords:
Female managers' leadership, Social factors, Mediating, public high schoolAbstract
The objectives of this research were: (1) To study the components on the Female administrators' Leadership in high schools under Shenyang city. (2) To develop the model of mediating factors between social factors and Female administrators' Leadership in high schools in Shenyang city. And (3) To decompose mediating factors of the social factors affecting on female administrators' leadership in public high schools in Shenyang city. The population were administrators' and teachers in public high schools determined by G*Power software, total 2,862 and used stratified random sampling method for 212. The data analyzed by statistical software including descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation model.
The research found that; (1) The leadership of female administrators' consist of 5 components mainly; thinking ability, organizational ability and decision-making ability; (2) Personal factors, Ffamily factors and Oorganizational factors had positive effect on female administrators' leadership with statistical significant (p<.05), and play an intermediary role between social factors and female administrators' leadership; ?And (3) The mediating effect of intermediary factors could be reduce the direct effect of social factors on the leadership of female administrators at 59%.
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