Dimensions of Self-Leadership: A German Replication and Extension

Abstract

In a sample of 167 German students three dimensions of self-leadership, i.e., constructive thoughts, natural reward creation, and proactive behavior, were replicated as when scale values of a German self-leadership questionnaire were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis very satisfactory fit-indices were obtained. In addition, dimensions of self-leadership correlated with entrepreneurial trait disposition (multiple R=0.46, p < .01), and entrepreneurial job orientation (multiple R=0.23, p < .05). Conclusions for further research and practical applications are discussed.

Keeping an insecure career under control: The longitudinal interplay of career insecurity, self-management, and self-efficacy

“…In the second supplementary study, we examined the association of our selfmanagement instrument with a measure of proactive career behaviors, namely the Career Engagement Scale (Hirschi et al, 2014) and constructive thinking strategies as a subdimension of self-leadership (Müller, 2006). The Career Engagement Scale (Hirschi et al, 2014) consists of nine items of which the first three described career management behavior in general (e.g., undertook thinks to achieve one's career goals), while the other six tapped specific career behaviors in terms of career planning, networking, career exploration, positioning behavior, and training.…”

Self‐leadership: a cross‐cultural perspective

“…self-awareness, volition, motivation, cognition, and behavior) were chosen from Müller's (2006) self-leadership item pool. Müller's (2006) strategies addressing motivation, cognition and behavior matched the strategies of Houghton and Neck's (2002) Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (i.e. strategies addressing the areas of natural rewards, constructive thoughts, and behavior, respectively).…”

“…strategies addressing the areas of natural rewards, constructive thoughts, and behavior, respectively). The strategies of self-awareness and volition were added dimensions of self-leadership (see Müller (2006) for information on the development and validation of the additional strategies). Since 98 percent of the Chinese respondents had been learning English for nine years or longer, the questionnaires were administered in English.…”

“…sex, age, native language, number of years studying English). Strategies were conceptualized to address self-awareness, volition, motivation, cognition, and behavior (Müller, 2006).…”

A Comparison of Self-Leadership Characteristics of the Students of Department of Fine Arts and the Others "The Case of Gazi University"

“…Following issuing a reliable measure by Houghton & Neck [8], self-leadership studies became more attractive for the researchers. And then, cross-cultural validation is made by many researchers [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”