The relationship between distributed leadership and the enthusiasm and professional collaboration levels of teachers in Türkiye: the moderator effect of teacher optimism

The leadership approach which distributes positive emotions such as optimism and enthusiasm, which are at the core of positive psychology, and leadership roles to all teachers in the school, can help increase collaboration among teachers and positive workplace behaviors. This research indicates that teachers being enthusiastic while teaching and taking an active role in school management may enable them to be more collaborative in fulfilling these roles and other teaching roles. Teachers' enthusiasm for teaching can function as an emotional mechanism that connects teachers' collaboration with a leadership approach that distributes leadership throughout the school. Moreover, when teachers are more optimistic, they trust school administrators' leadership practices more, participate more in management, and can teach more collaboratively and enthusiastically. Future research may further examine these associations across different cultural contexts.