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Linking School Principals’ Leadership Styles

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
During the initial stage, only those articles that covered primary, sec-
ondary and upper secondary school teachers were included in the re-
view of titles and excerpts, while pre-school and pre-primary education
teachers and higher education lecturers were excluded. Articles that did
not fit the context, i.e. did not cover the leadership of principals and
teacher well-being in their content, were excluded. During the second
stage, additional criteria were introduced such as the results of the ar-
ticles must be based on empirical (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed)
research conducted by the authors, excluding other types of articles,
the articles must name the specific leadership style used by school prin-
cipals. Attention is once again drawn to the research participants and
their compliance with the participant inclusion criteria (school teach-
ers and/or school leaders), and relevance to the context (leadership of
principals and teacher well-being).

Retrieval of References and Handling
The following subsection presents the retrieval of references and han-
dling: only full and final publications; selected document type: scientific
journal articles; languageselection: Englishonly; subjectarea: social sci-
ences and psychology. When searching for scientific literature, it was
observed that including teachers’ professional well-being increases the
likelihood of finding relevant publications in the field of psychology.

Results
Overview of Selected Literature
In order to answer the research question, ‘What research is found and
lacking in analysing the links between the leadership style of school
principals and teachers’ professional well-being?,’ an analysis of all
publications that meet the established criteria was performed. After
analysing the year of publication (Table 4.1), an obvious novelty of the
articles and the popularity of the topic are noticeable, since 94 of the
literature was published in the period 2020–2024 (6 in 2020 (n =16),
18 in 2021 (n = 3), 6 in 2022 (n = 1), 41 in 2023 (n = 7), 24 in 2024 (n
= 4)), and the remaining 6 (n = 1) of the publications were published
in 2011.
Table 4.2 shows the distribution of articles by continent and country.
The analysis revealed that 9 out of 16 articles (56), excluding one that

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