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The Relationship Between A Principal's Self-Perceived Leader Style And Self-Perceived Job Stress, Paul Harrison Bisher Ii Jan 1988

The Relationship Between A Principal's Self-Perceived Leader Style And Self-Perceived Job Stress, Paul Harrison Bisher Ii

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a principal’s self-perceived leader style, self-perceived job stress and self-reported demographics.

The three null hypotheses were answered by analyzing data collected from a stratified random sampling of elementary and secondary principals in the West Virginia public school system. A three part questionnaire was used to collect the data. The first section of the questionnaire consisted of twelve statements regarding demographic information. The second section consisted of Hersey & Blanchard’s LEAD-Self instrument. The third section consisted of Tung & Koch's revised Administrative Stress Index which contained twenty-five job related stressor …