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COMPARISON OF TEACHERS' ATTITUDES AND STUDENTS' SELF-ESTEEM

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1976
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the leadership style of a teacher (based on the teacher's attitudes of students as measured by the Supervisory Attitudes Scale), and the amount of self-esteem of the students (based on the school environment as measured by the Semantic Differential Scale). The study attempted to answer the question, "Does the leadership style of a teacher affect the measure of self-esteem in the students?" The sample for this study consisted of two hundred grade six teachers and their six thousand students located in six districts of the Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Teachers' attitude Scale was administered to the two hundred grade six teachers to determine by district the fifteen per cent most authoritarian and the fifteen per cent most non-authoritarian teachers . It was concluded that teachers' leadership attitudes did have a significant effect on students' self-esteem, and that students of teachers with Theory X attitudes had a significantly lower measure of self-esteem than students of teachers with Theory Y attitudes.
Title: A COMPARISON OF TEACHERS' ATTITUDES AND STUDENTS' SELF-ESTEEM.
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Name(s): CAREY, FORBES BRUCE, author
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
McCleary, Edward J., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, FL
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 104 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the leadership style of a teacher (based on the teacher's attitudes of students as measured by the Supervisory Attitudes Scale), and the amount of self-esteem of the students (based on the school environment as measured by the Semantic Differential Scale). The study attempted to answer the question, "Does the leadership style of a teacher affect the measure of self-esteem in the students?" The sample for this study consisted of two hundred grade six teachers and their six thousand students located in six districts of the Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Teachers' attitude Scale was administered to the two hundred grade six teachers to determine by district the fifteen per cent most authoritarian and the fifteen per cent most non-authoritarian teachers . It was concluded that teachers' leadership attitudes did have a significant effect on students' self-esteem, and that students of teachers with Theory X attitudes had a significantly lower measure of self-esteem than students of teachers with Theory Y attitudes.
Identifier: 11669 (digitool), FADT11669 (IID), fau:8604 (fedora)
Degree granted: Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Education
Subject(s): Teacher-student relationships
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