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Construction and validation of the scale of ideal influence of managers and assessment of its status in educational complexes

This research was conducted with the aim of constructing and validating the scale of ideal influence of managers and assessment of its status in educational complexes. This research is a developmental research in terms of its purpose and a descriptive-survey in terms of its method. The statistical population in this research was teachers (all official and contractual staff) of both primary and secondary levels of Sabzevar educational complexes in the academic year 1403-04. According to the statistics provided by the Sabzevar Education Department, their number was 135 people. Using the Morgan table, 110 people (due to the dropout of 100 people) were selected as a sample using the simple random sampling method. Content validity, convergent validity, and factor analysis were used to assess the validity of the scale of ideal influence. Content validity was examined by 6 professors. To measure convergent validity, the ideal influence subscale in the Athari questionnaire (2009) that measured the transformational leadership of managers was used. Exploratory factor analysis was also conducted. First, a researcher-made questionnaire of ideal influence of managers was created and content validity, convergent construct, and factor analysis were used. Its reliability was performed using Cronbach's alpha. Finally, its components were extracted and provided to teachers. The collected data were analyzed using Spss28 software and descriptive criteria related to the research variables were presented, and then the results obtained were presented with the help of Smart PLS software and structural equations. The results showed that the correlation between the researcher-made ideal influence scale and Athari's ideal influence scale was 0.88 (P ? 0.05) and their relationship was significant at the 0.001 level. Exploratory factor analysis categorized ideal influence into four components: role modeling, insight and perspective, respect, and ethical values. Also, in the results of confirmatory factor analysis, the fit indices of AGFI, NNFI, CFI, AGFI, NFI, and RMSEA were obtained as 0.68, 0.98, 0.98, 0.64, 0.97, and 0.99, respectively. Cronbach's alpha method was used to calculate the reliability of the ideal influence scale, which was obtained as 0.97. Accordingly, the researcher-made scale of ideal influence has high reliability.

Keywords: Keywords: Ideal influence; ethical values; insight and perspective; respect and role modeling