Abstract

This research aimed to identify the compassionate leadership components and indicators for school administrators of secondary schools in Northeast region of Thailand, and to validate the model of compassionate leadership components and indicators used by the school administrators of secondary schools in Northeast region of Thailand. This research assessed the utility of mixed method design consisting of two phases. The first phase is identifying the components and the indicators of compassionate leadership through documentary research, and confirming through semi-structured interviews. The second phase is validating the goodness-of-fit of the components and indicators of compassionate leadership using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The samples are school administrators and teachers with the total of 600 respondents from 300 secondary schools in Northeast region of Thailand. The results indicated as follows: (1) There were five main components of compassionate leadership consisting of Integrity, Empathizing, Attending, Understanding, and Helping along with fifteen indicators. (2) From the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), it revealed that the developed model of compassionate leadership components and indicators for school administrators of secondary schools in Northeast region of Thailand was congruent with the empirical evidence with the chi-square of 56.207, the degree of freedom (df) of 43, P-Value of 0.0853, CFI of 0.999, TLI of 0.997, RMSEA of 0.027, and SRMR of 0.007.

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