Abstract:
The objectives of the research were (1) to study the components of ethical leadership of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Loei Nong Bua Lamphu, (2) to analyze the components of ethical leadership of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Loei Nong Bua Lamphu, and (3) to examine the consistency of the component model of ethical leadership of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Loei Nong Bua Lamphu. The sample group was a total of 500 school administrators and teachers under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Loei Nong Bua Lamphu. The research instrument used for data collection was the five-level rating scale questionnaire with the content validity indices (CVI) between 0.70-1.00 and the reliability of 0.976. The statistics used for data analysis consisted of frequency distribution, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The research results were as follows: 1. Apart from the study, the ethical leadership of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Loei Nong Bua Lamphu comprised five main components and sixteen sub-components. The first main component was fairness with three sub-components, the second was trust with three sub-components, the third was integrity with four sub-components, the fourth was respect with three sub-components, and the fifth was responsibility with three sub-components. 2.The analysis of the ethical leadership components of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Loei Nong Bua Lamphu revealed that all the sixteen sub-components had their factor loading from 0.29 to 0.44, and met with the given criteria. 3.The structural equation model of ethical leadership components of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Loei Nong Bua Lamphu was consistent with the empirical data with Chi-Square (χ2) = 61.83, the degree of freedom (df) = 52, the P-value = 0.16504, the goodness of fit index (GFI) = 0.98, the adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) = 0.96, the comparative fit index (CFI) = 1.00, the Standard Root Mean Square Residual (SRMR) = 0.02, and the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) 0.02.