The Relationship of Extrinsic Autonomy of Teaching and Teachers’ Leadership: The Mediating Effects of Teachers’ Psychological Empowerment and Intrinsic Autonomy of Teaching

doi:10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.01.016

Abstract

Abstract: Teachers’ leadership refers to the professional characteristics of teachers leading colleagues in and out of the classroom to improve their professional skills and cooperating with teachers and principals to handle school affairs. To explore the relationship between teachers’ extrinsic autonomy of teaching and teachers’ leadership, as well as the mediating effects of teachers’ psychological empowerment and intrinsic autonomy of teaching, so as to find more ways to improve teachers’ leadership, this study surveyed 403 primary and secondary school teachers through questionnaires. The study found that: 1) the extrinsic autonomy of teaching of school teachers was significantly positively correlated with teachers’ leadership, and the former had a significant direct effect on the latter; 2) teachers’ psychological empowerment and intrinsic autonomy of teaching had partial mediating effects on the relationship between teachers’ extrinsic autonomy of teaching and teachers’ leadership, respectively; 3) teachers’ psychological empowerment and intrinsic autonomy of teaching had partial serial mediating effects between teachers’ extrinsic autonomy of teaching and teachers’ leadership.

Key words: extrinsic autonomy of teaching, teachers’ leadership, psychological empowerment, intrinsic autonomy of teaching, primary and secondary school

摘要： 教师领导力是指教师在课堂内外带领同事提升专业技能，与其他教师和校长合作处理学校事务的一种专业特质。为探究教师教学自主权与教师领导力的关系，以及教师心理授权和教学自主性的中介作用，从而寻求提升教师领导力的路径，研究选取403名中小学教师进行问卷调查。结果发现：（1）教学自主权与教师领导力呈显著正相关，且前者对后者有显著直接效应；（2）教师心理授权和教学自主性分别在教学自主权与教师领导力间发挥部分中介作用；（3）教师心理授权和教学自主性在教学自主权对教师领导力间发挥部分链式中介作用，即教学自主权的提高会促进教师心理授权和教学自主性的提升，进而促进教师领导力的发展。

关键词: 教学自主权, 教师领导力, 心理授权, 教学自主性, 中小学

CLC Number:

B849

YAO Jihai, SHEN Ling, ZOU Honghui. The Relationship of Extrinsic Autonomy of Teaching and Teachers’ Leadership: The Mediating Effects of Teachers’ Psychological Empowerment and Intrinsic Autonomy of Teaching[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022, 20(1): 108-114.

姚计海, 沈玲, 邹弘晖. 教师教学自主权与教师领导力的关系：心理授权和教学自主性的中介作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2022, 20(1): 108-114.

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