The relationship between supervisors’ coaching leadership style and doctoral students’ self-efficacy: a cross-cultural analysis among UK, Israel, and China
The relationship between supervisors’ coaching leadership style and doctoral students’ self-efficacy: a cross-cultural analysis among UK, Israel, and China
This study extends coaching relationships to higher education by examining the impact of principal supervisors’ coaching leadership on doctoral students’ self-efficacy. A survey of 657 doctoral students from the UK, Israel, and China was conducted to validate the relationship between supervisors’ coaching behaviours, working alliance, and students’ self-efficacy. Results indicate that supervisors’ coaching skills and a strong working alliance enhance students’ self-beliefs in their academic pursuits. Additionally, cross-cultural analysis reveals that perceptions of power and uncertainty influence supervisory relationships. This research shifts the focus from challenges in doctoral students’ well-being to positive professional relationships.
Doctoral students, coaching style leadership, positive psychology, students’ self-efficacy, supervisory relationship
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Lai, Yi-Ling
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Wang, Qing
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Bozer, Gil
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van Laar, Darren
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Marren, Andrew
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Bozer, Gil
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van Laar, Darren
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Lai, Yi-Ling, Wang, Qing, Bozer, Gil, van Laar, Darren and Marren, Andrew
(2025)
The relationship between supervisors’ coaching leadership style and doctoral students’ self-efficacy: a cross-cultural analysis among UK, Israel, and China.
International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 23 (2), .
(doi:10.24384/rz19-bx47).
Abstract
This study extends coaching relationships to higher education by examining the impact of principal supervisors’ coaching leadership on doctoral students’ self-efficacy. A survey of 657 doctoral students from the UK, Israel, and China was conducted to validate the relationship between supervisors’ coaching behaviours, working alliance, and students’ self-efficacy. Results indicate that supervisors’ coaching skills and a strong working alliance enhance students’ self-beliefs in their academic pursuits. Additionally, cross-cultural analysis reveals that perceptions of power and uncertainty influence supervisory relationships. This research shifts the focus from challenges in doctoral students’ well-being to positive professional relationships.
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 July 2025
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Keywords:
Doctoral students, coaching style leadership, positive psychology, students’ self-efficacy, supervisory relationship
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