The Construction and Validation of the School Counseling Transformational Leadership Inventory

Abstract

ABSTRACTRecognizing, measuring, and developing leadership attitudes and skills in school counselors is needed to support students, school counseling programs, and school communities. Specifically, there is a need to examine transformational leadership attitudes and skills of school counselors that inspire, motivate, and empower individuals to participate in the vision for comprehensive school counseling programs. The construction and exploration of a transformational leadership inventory for school counselors is presented. Through exploratory factor analyses (n = 217) and confirmatory factor analyses (n = 676) with school counselors, a one-factor inventory of transformational leadership evolved. Implications for school counseling research and professional development are offered.