Explaining the Relationship between positive and negative Emotions and Transformational Leadership: The Mediating Role of creative self-confidence
Subject Areas : Islamic positive psychology
mostafa bagherian far
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hasti Abdohshahirad
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Keywords: Positive emotions, Negative emotions, creative self-confidence, Transformational leadership style,
Abstract :
This research was conducted to explain the relationship between positive and negative emotions and the transformational leadership style of school principals, with the mediating role of creative self- confidence. The current study was applied in nature and was correlational in design. The population of the study was all the school principals of education in Semnan city in the academic year 2024-2025. Out of this population, 230 principals were chosen through simple random sampling. Watson and Tegen’s Questionnaire was used to measure emotions; Phelan and Young Questionnaire was used to measure creative self-confidence and Bus and Avolio’s Questionnaire was used to measure transformational leadership. The findings showed that those principals who experienced more pleasant emotions made use of transformational leadership style more often. In addition, the findings were indicative of the mediating role of creative self-confidence in the relationship between emotions and transformational leadership style.
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