“…Research has shown that distributed leadership in particular has been diagnosed as being crucial to schools' working conditions and teachers' work attitudes, such as professional commitment and satisfaction (Leithwood & Mascall, 2008; Liu, Bellibaş, et al., 2021, Liu, Keeley, et al., 2021). There is also evidence that distributed leadership might reduce teachers' job stress (Rabindarang et al., 2014) and support their well‐being (Windlinger, 2021). The evidence, however, is lacking with regard to the role of teachers' stress and well‐being in the relationship between distributed leadership and teacher work attitudes, especially from the international perspective, although research attention to teacher stress and well‐being has blossomed since the COVID‐19 pandemic (Alves et al., 2021; Billaudeau et al., 2022; Pressley et al., 2021).…”