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Linking School Principals’ Leadership Styles

2. Comprehensive literature search – search for literature using key-
words in the selected database;
3. Quality assessment –selected publicationsare read to decide which
ones will be used for the review and which ones will be discarded
due to inappropriateness;
4. Data extraction – relevant information found in publications is
noted;
5. Synthesis – combining the collected data according to the estab-
lished criteria;
6. Description – describing the results of the systematic review.

Database Searches
During the review phase, a research plan was prepared, including re-
search question, keywords, and inclusion and exclusion criteria (see
Figure 4.1). When applying the systematic literature review, the Scopus
scientific literature database was selected, which is considered reliable
due to the number of peer-reviewed publications, constant updating,
and a search system that provides wide possibilities. Due to the novelty
of the topic, the publication period of scientific literature was not lim-
ited. The search was performed using the keyword ‘leadership,’ which
was combined using the Boolean logic operator and with the second
keyword ‘teacher well-being.’ It was noted that some publications use
both the word form ‘well-being’ and ‘wellbeing,’ therefore it was cho-
sen to perform an analysis of the two results obtained by keywords. The
search phrase was chosen to exclude words such as school leaders, ad-
ministration, director, and professional welfare, due to broader search
possibilities when relevant literature uses synonyms in the title and
abstract.
The search phrase was used to search for keywords in the title, ex-
cerpt and among keywords of publications. During the initial selection,
165 articles were found using the phrase ‘leadership and teacher and
well-being,’ and 91 articles were found using the phrase ‘leadership and
teacher and wellbeing.’ A total of 256 articles were identified that met
the search criteria for scientific literature. The titles and excerpts of
these publications were reviewed to search for the named keywords in
order to ensure that they were relevant to the context of the problem
question raised and that they were relevant to the context (leadership
and teacher well-being). After applying the initial inclusion and exclu-

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