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Resilience And The African American Superintendent, Bernadeia Johnson, Lakisha Witter, Jason A. Kaufman
Resilience And The African American Superintendent, Bernadeia Johnson, Lakisha Witter, Jason A. Kaufman
Educational Leadership Department Publications
We sought to explore the extent to which race might influence how African American superintendents cope with the stressors of their leadership roles and the presence of support while in such positions. In order to test this question, we recruited African American superintendents across the United States. We specifically measured their ability to cope with stressors and maintain resilience in leadership. African American superintendents indicated that they primarily utilized problem-based coping to navigate role stress and that they perceived themselves as successfully bouncing back from that stress. We offer a brief set of recommendations based upon these results to foster …
Stress And Coping Among Public School Principals In A Midwest Metropolitan Sample, Jason A. Kaufman
Stress And Coping Among Public School Principals In A Midwest Metropolitan Sample, Jason A. Kaufman
Educational Leadership Department Publications
The present study sought to investigate perceptions of stress and coping among public school principals. School principals are daily called upon to make decisions regarding a range of unscripted events. The position can be stressful, and stress is known to interfere with sound decision making. It was predicted that present samples of school principals would report a mean level of elevated stress. Contrary to expectations, school principals did not report an elevated level of stress. They instead reported an ostensibly effective reliance on problem-focused and emotion-focused coping skills. It remains unclear how the school principals developed such adaptive means for …