Journal article
The Interaction Between General and Strategic Leadership and Climate on Their Multilevel Associations with Implementer Attitudes Toward Universal Prevention Programs for Youth Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study
Administration and policy in mental health and mental health services research, Vol.50(3), pp.427-449
05/2023
DOI: 10.1007/s10488-022-01248-5
PMID: 36585557
Abstract
Emerging literature has highlighted the importance of discerning general and strategic organizational context (OC) factors (e.g., leadership and climate) and their interaction effect on individual implementation behaviors (e.g., attitudes toward evidence-based practices; EBPs) in youth mental healthcare. This study aimed to examine how leadership and climate (general and strategic) are associated with implementer attitudes toward EBPs across the individual and organizational levels and their interaction effect in schools. A series of multilevel models (MLMs) were fitted on a diverse sample of schools actively implementing universal prevention programs for youth mental health (441 implementers from 52 schools). The organization-level aggregates and individual educators' perceptions of general and strategic leadership and climate, and their interaction terms, were entered as level-2 and level-1 predictors of four attitudinal dimensions (Requirement, Openness, Appeal, and Divergence) based on their level of measurement. At the organizational level, higher levels of strategic leadership and climate, but not their general counterparts, were consistently associated with more favorable attitudes in all four dimensions. At the individual/within-school level, higher levels of perceived general and strategic leadership and climate were associated with more favorable attitudes of Requirement and Openness. At the organizational/between-school level, general climate moderated the positive effect of strategic climate on implementers' perception of appeal and divergence of EBPs. Our findings indicate that leaders should make data-based decisions to allocate resources on strategic and/or general leadership and climate to foster favorable staff attitudes toward EBPs based on the level of measurement, implementation-specificity, and attitudinal dimensions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Interaction Between General and Strategic Leadership and Climate on Their Multilevel Associations with Implementer Attitudes Toward Universal Prevention Programs for Youth Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study
- Creators
- Yanchen Zhang - University of IowaClay Cook - University of MinnesotaLindsay Fallon - University of Massachusetts BostonCatherine Corbin - University of WashingtonMark Ehrhart - University of Central FloridaEric Brown - University of MiamiJill Locke - University of WashingtonAaron Lyon - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Administration and policy in mental health and mental health services research, Vol.50(3), pp.427-449
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10488-022-01248-5
- PMID
- 36585557
- ISSN
- 0894-587X
- eISSN
- 1573-3289
- Number of pages
- 23
- Grant note
- R305A160114 / Institute of Education Sciences; US Department of Education; Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 12/30/2022
- Date published
- 05/2023
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984371302202771
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