Principals’ transformational leadership and teachers’ intention to use digital technology: A chain mediation model
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Zhou, J., &
Niu, X.
(2025). Principals’ transformational leadership and teachers’ intention to use digital technology: A chain mediation model.
Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal,
53(10),
e14712.
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Studies have shown that school principals’ transformational leadership impacts teachers’ intention to use digital technology in their teaching practice. As the underlying mechanism of this impact remains unclear in ethnic minority areas of China, we explored the effect of principals’ transformational leadership on the intention of teachers in these regions to use digital technology, incorporating teachers’ perception of the organizational innovation climate and their technological pedagogical content knowledge as mediators. We conducted a survey with 476 teachers in ethnic minority areas in China. The findings showed that principals’ transformational leadership directly increased teachers’ intention to use digital technology for teaching, and also indirectly enhanced this intention through the individual and chain mediators of perception of the organization’s innovation climate and technological pedagogical content knowledge. Our results enhance understanding of the relationship between principals’ transformational leadership and teachers’ intention to use digital technology in China’s ethnic minority areas.
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