Permanency of Leader Self-Confidence Development: A Longitudinal Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine if youths' leader self-confidence, once developed in a leadership training program, persisted over time. It is exploratory comparative analysis research comparing two studies on the same leadership training program: Benson (1991) and the Canadian Alberta Provincial Government ( ). Benson's (1991 study assessed youths' self-confidence 3 months after they attended the provincial leadership training program. The Alberta Provincial Government (1995) study assessed youths' and adults' self-confidence 1 to 8 years after they attended the same provincial leadership training program. Although this is not a true longitudinal study following the same subjects over time; it is a follow-up study measuring the impact of the provincial leadership training program on the permanency of self-confidence development and retention over time. This is one of the few leadership studies on self-efficacy and self-confidence to do this. This exploratory study will do an in-depth comparative analysis of

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Authentic Leadership and Societal Transformation: A Review of Literature

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