The problem addressed by this study was to determine if significant relationships existed between the leadership style of the principal and the kinds and severity of administrative problems, including disciplinary problems, found in the school. / Subjects of this study included 30 Florida middle school principals and 450 Florida middle school students. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire--Form XII Self instrument and a demographic information sheet were used to collect data from the principals and the School Problem Area Survey: Students Questionnaire to collect data from the students. / The canonical correlational analysis was used to determine if a significant relationship at the .05 level existed between the leadership style of the principals and identified school problems. / The findings of the study indicated the following: (1) Student respondents perceived discipline as the most severe problem area existing in the schools. Students identified profanity; cheating; theft; and violence or threats of violence as the most severe concerns. Student respondents also identified major administrative problems in the areas of school attractiveness; student characteristics and relationships; teacher-student relationships; teacher characteristics and relationships; and principal-student relationships. (2) The principals identified consideration and initiation of structure as their dominant traits and, in contrast, predictive accuracy and demand reconciliation as their weakest traits. (3) The canonical analysis revealed that a high interrelationship of .97 existed between the leadership behavior of middle school principals and identified administrative problems at the .05 level of significance; and that representation, consideration, production emphasis, and initiation of structure made the strongest contribution to this significant interrelationship. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-11, Section: A, page: 4680. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74693 |
| Contributors | SMITH, FREDERICK EARL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 156 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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