The effects of mindfulness awareness and emotion regulation on self-leadership skills in business life

Examining the relationship between mindfulness and emotion regulation strategies in business life and the individual's self-leadership motivation is useful in terms of understanding the self-management skills of employees in a professional context. In this respect, statistical analysis of the relationship between self-leadership, mindfulness and emotion regulation in professional life and understanding the relationship between them are important in terms of contributing to the literature. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of adults' mindfulness and emotion regulation skills on self-leadership skills. In this context, data were obtained from 420 people from different provinces, who are continuing their professional business life, by using the Conscious Awareness Scale, Emotion Regulation Scale and Self-Leadership Scale by questionnaire method. Whether the scales used in the research differ according to demographic data and study data were analyzed with significance tests. Before deciding which analysis to use, whether the data fit the normal distribution was evaluated by Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests. In addition, the skewness and kurtosis values of the data were examined and it was observed that they ranged from -1.5 to +1.5. Data with normal distribution; for the analysis of two-group comparison; Independent Sample T test was used, and ANOVA was used for comparing more than two groups. LSD post-hoc analysis was applied according to the Levene test results in order to determine between which groups there was a significant difference in the analysis. The effect of mindfulness and emotion regulation on self-leadership was determined by regression analysis. SPSS v23 statistical program was used in the analysis of the research. According to the findings obtained after the analysis; When the relationship between self-leadership scale and emotion regulation and mindfulness scales is evaluated; A statistically significant positive correlation was determined between self-leadership and emotion regulation. It has been determined that as individuals' emotion regulation levels increase, their self-leadership levels will also increase. Keywords: Mindfulness Attention Awareness, Awareness, Emotion, Emotion Regulation, Leader, Leadership, Self-Leadership.