Since Colonial America, higher education had a mission of producing student leaders, and at least in the early stages colleges and universities were also interested in the development of the spiritual lives of college students. By the mid-1800s, although spiritual and religious missions subsided, leadership development remained an outcome of higher education to varying degrees. In more recent years, voices in the academy have suggested that colleges and universities should reconsider their role in students' spiritual development. Within that conversation, combined with claims of leadership theorists, a relationship between leadership development and spirituality has been suggested. The purpose of this study was to provide an empirical examination of the relationship of a student's spiritual question to their development in the values of the social change model of leadership development. This study used data from the 2012 dataset of the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership. Findings from ANCOVA and HLM analysis suggested a small but statistically significant relationship between a student's engagement in spiritual quest and their development in the values of the social change model. Additionally, social perspective taking was found as a significant covariate. A student's engagement in spiritual quest and increases in a student's capacity for social perspective taking can predict a positive increase in the omnibus score of the socially responsible leadership scale. Higher education administrators and student development professionals may benefit by incorporating spirituality into leadership development programming. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2015. / March 31, 2015. / leadership development, social perspective taking, spirituality, student development / Includes bibliographical references. / Kathy Guthrie, Professor Directing Dissertation; Diane Rice, University Representative; David Tandberg, Committee Member; Robert A. Schwartz, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_253043 |
| Contributors | Stonecipher, Paul R. (authoraut), Guthrie, Kathy L. (professor directing dissertation), Rice, Diana Claries, 1949- (university representative), Tandberg, David A. (committee member), Schwartz, Robert A. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Education (degree granting college), Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (149 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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