Understanding distributed leadership practices in and around teacher teams 5 105 5.4. Results Within this results section, we firstly present how individual characteristics (based on the social network questionnaire) link to advice-seeking. Advice-seeking is how we measured distributed leadership practices. After that, the significant findings of the analysis on individual level will be included in the analysis of team characteristics. In one large table, we ordered the teacher teams on their degree of distributed leadership. We present which team characteristics link to distributed leadership practices and which school characteristics link to distributed leadership practices. This is a combination of qualitative and quantitative data. Lastly, we summarize the results of the three levels in a table. 5.4.1. Characteristics of individuals linked to advice-seeking (measure of distributed leadership practices) Table 5.3 presents the regression results on background characteristics of individuals and advice-seeking. A significant contribution was found for the Perceived leader within 8 out of 14 teams. This meant that within these teams, when someone perceived another person as a leader, it was more likely that this other person would be asked for advice. Next, Personal contact was found to be significant within five teams. This meant that within these teams, when someone had personal contact with another person, it was more likely that this person would be asked for advice. Furthermore, the Teaching experience of teachers was only significant within one team, and thus did not add additional explained variance overall to the Perceived leader and Personal contact for asking someone for advice. Finally, Gender was not significant in any team, and thus did not add additional explained variance. This means that being of the same gender (or not) did not matter when it came to asking someone for advice. These regression results indicated that in most teams, perceiving someone as a leader (Perceived leader) mattered most when it came to asking someone for advice. When the Perceived leader was not significant within a team, it was Personal contact that related to who is asked for advice.
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