The Effect of Gender Role Attitudes on Multidimensional Leadership Orientations Among Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Services Worker

Aim: This study aims to examine the effects of gender roles on multidimensional leadership orientations of employees working in pre-hospital emergency medical services. Material and Method:The research was planned as a cross-sectional study.The sample consisted of 350 emergency health service workers.Data were collected using a socio-demographic information form, the Gender Role Attitude Scale, and the Multidimensional Leadership Orientations Scale.Data analysis was performed using IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program version 22.0, with statistical significance set at p<0.05. Results:The mean age of the participants was found to be 24.216.39.Gender showed a significant difference in terms of the Gender Roles Attitude Scale; male participants had higher scale scores than female participants.In terms of the Multidimensional Leadership Orientations Scale, both gender and profession showed significant differences.While the human leadership sub-dimension scores of female participants were found to be higher than males, the total scale scores of doctors and paramedics were found to be higher compared to emergency medical technicians (p<0.05).No significant relationship was found between the Gender Roles Attitude Scale and the Multidimensional Leadership Orientations Scale (p>0.05). Conclusion:In this study, which was conducted to examine the effect of gender roles on multi-dimensional leadership orientations of pre-hospital emergency medical services employees, it is striking that although male personnel received high scores in Gender Role Attitude Scale and female personnel received high scores in the Multidimensional Leadership Orientations Scale human resources subdimension, both genders received lower scores in the Multidimensional Leadership Orientations Scale total and sub-dimensions.