TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Police officer transformational leadership: development and validation of a self-reported scale JO - American journal of applied psychology A1 - Dussault, Marc A1 - Deschênes, Andrée-Ann A1 - Frenette, Éric SP - EP - VL - 7 IS - 6 N2 - The aim of this study is to develop and test the factorial validity of a questionnaire about police officer's transformational leadership on the ground. Based on Bass's (1985) transactional/transformational leadership model, Police Officers Transformational Leadership Scale is composed of 33 items rated on a Likert-type scale from (1) Completely disagree to (6) Completely agree. Respondents were 167 police officers from a large French Canadian police organization and two small police corps. The results show that a model structure with two second-order dimensions (transactional and transformational leadership), consistent with Bass's theory (1985), provided a good fit to the data. The results suggest that this questionnaire is well suited for describing the transformational leadership of police officers.

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LA - en SN - 2328-5664 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.ajap.20180706.11 ID - ref1 ER -