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The Relationship Between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and Happiness Among Higher Educational Leaders
Title
The Relationship Between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and Happiness Among Higher Educational Leaders.
Creator
Sullivan, Jeannette S., Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this research was to determine if a relationship exists between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and subjective states of well-being among higher educational leaders in state and community colleges in Florida. The underlying supposition was that the preference for what Douglas McGregor called Theory X or Theory Y assumptions, indicate intrinsic assumptions about human nature and are linked to subjective happiness. Quantitative data were collected through electronic administration...
Show moreThe purpose of this research was to determine if a relationship exists between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and subjective states of well-being among higher educational leaders in state and community colleges in Florida. The underlying supposition was that the preference for what Douglas McGregor called Theory X or Theory Y assumptions, indicate intrinsic assumptions about human nature and are linked to subjective happiness. Quantitative data were collected through electronic administration of two surveys and demographic questions to higher educational leaders at 28 state and community colleges in the State of Florida. These instruments measured levels of well-being through the PERMA-Profiler instrument and preferences for Theory X or Theory Y using the Theory X and Theory Y Managerial Assumptions Inventory. Multiple correlation and regression analyses were used to address the research questions. This study detected no relationship between well-being and happiness in this sample.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004831, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004831
Subject Headings
Personnel management., Educational leadership., Quality of work life., Work--Psychological aspects., Happiness., Job satisfaction.
Format
Document (PDF)
Colombian Happiness: A Look at Life Satisfaction and Explanatory Style
Title
Colombian Happiness: A Look at Life Satisfaction and Explanatory Style.
Creator
Sinisterra, Diana, Brown, Susan Love, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
This project examines the explanatory style of Colombians, the habitual way in which they explain the good and bad events that occur in their lives, and its relationship to life satisfaction. Two hundred and twenty Colombians completed a life satisfaction question, the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), and demographic questions. Simple means, correlations, and a multiple regression analysis were used to assess the results. The results of the ASQ were also compared to two previously...
Show moreThis project examines the explanatory style of Colombians, the habitual way in which they explain the good and bad events that occur in their lives, and its relationship to life satisfaction. Two hundred and twenty Colombians completed a life satisfaction question, the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), and demographic questions. Simple means, correlations, and a multiple regression analysis were used to assess the results. The results of the ASQ were also compared to two previously conducted studies: a comparison of American and Chinese national levels of explanatory style and a study conducted on a non-clinical sample of American adults. The results of this study showed that the mean of Colombian overall explanatory style is more optimistic than the mean overall explanatory style for participants in both the United States and mainland China. There are no correlations between individual responses of life satisfaction and explanatory style for the full sample; however, national means for explanatory style seem to correlate with national means of life satisfaction. The multiple regression analysis showed that when taking explanatory style, gender, age, stratum, income, education, occupation, and city into account, the only factors that are statistically significant are occupation and city. More specifically, the results show that those Colombians who Jive in Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, and Medillfn will tend to have higher levels of life satisfaction than those who live in Bogota, and those who are unemployed will tend to have a lower level of life satisfaction than those who work.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000993
Subject Headings
Centering (Psychology), Mind and body, Happiness, Culture--Philosophy, Colombia--Social life and customs, Quality of life
Format
Document (PDF)
An address before the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
Title
An address before the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York.
Creator
Spring, Gardiner, 1785-1873, Taylor, John S., active 1832-1854 publisher
Abstract/Description
Concerning the "habit of industry--a diligent and steady self-devotement to some useful occupation" in the cultivation and advancement of a young man. Copyright 1837 by John S. Taylor. Last page blank. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb12f10
Subject Headings
Diligence, Happiness, Reading, Conduct of life, Youth -- Conduct of life, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Young men -- Conduct of life
Format
E-book