The Moderating Effect of Mindfulness on the Link between Self-efficacy and transformational leadership among National Youth Service Corps in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the moderating effect of mindfulness on the link between self-efficacy and transformational leadership among National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving in Oyo state Nigeria. The participants in the study were 400 youths drawn from 2011 Batch ‘A’ corpers deployed to the State. Three valid and reliable instruments were used to assess mindfulness, self-efficacy and transformational leadership. Descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and hierarchical regression analysis were used to analyse the data. The result demonstrated that mindfulness and self-efficacy significantly correlated with transformational leadership. The moderating effect of mindfulness on the relationship between self-efficacy and transformational leadership was also found to be significant. On the basis of the findings, it is suggested that NYSC administrators and policy makers should make conscious efforts to consider incorporating mastery-based experiences in mindfulness skills and self efficacy into service policy and training programmes at the orientation training and service delivery levels.

Keywords: Mindfulness, self-efficacy, Transformational leadership