This study examines the impact of key leadership attributes—Emotional Intelligence, Rapport Trust Building, Reflective Capacity, Generativity in Leadership, and Emotionally Safe Environments—on the professional growth of school leaders in China. Using data from 500 respondents, we applied Ridge Regression to manage multicollinearity and found that these attributes significantly predict professional growth, explaining 62.1 percent of its variance (R2 = 0.621). Emotional Intelligence (coefficient = 0.2689, p < 0.001) emerged as the strongest predictor, followed by Rapport Trust Building (coefficient = 0.2518, p < 0.001), Reflective Capacity (coefficient = 0.1710, p < 0.001), Generativity in Leadership (coefficient = 0.1745, p < 0.001), and Emotionally Safe Environments (coefficient = 0.1758, p < 0.001). The results underscore the importance of these competencies in leadership development within the Chinese educational context, providing valuable insights for policymakers and administrators.
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