Students’ Leadership Styles among Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the Province of La Union

Abstract

Leaders are not born, they are developed; but as to kind of leadership they will exemplify is
dependent on so many variables. This research is just one of so many million attempts to
investigate what are the variables that affect leadership styles. This descriptive-correlation
research describes the profile and leadership styles of the 96 student leaders from 12 higher
education institutions in the Province of La Union through standardized leadership style
questionnaire. This endeavor is finding the significant relationship of the 6 identified profile
variables (gender, honor received, type of high school graduated, type of HEI enrolled, ordinal
position in the family and religion) to the leadership styles using chi-square test for
independence. The vital finding revealed that only ordinal position in the family has significant
relationship with the leadership generating p value of 0.030.