“…Self‐leadership is as an extension of SM, and self‐leadership strategies are behaviour‐focused strategies that increase achievements, orientation and performance (Neck & Manz, ). Thus, the current findings concur with those of other studies that family‐ and friend‐based supportive interventions improve SM and adoption of healthy behaviours in patients with cancer (Gilliam et al., ; Porter et al., ; Yun et al., ). Similar studies also reported that use of self‐leadership strategies was effective in improving performance in educational settings (Rahimi, Rad, & Eynali, ), self‐care behaviours in patients with heart failure (Sayers, Riegel, Pawlowski, Coyne, & Samaha, ) and cancer care outcomes (Yun et al., ).…”