Psychological portrait of a leader on the example of Muslim women

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the psychological portrait of a leader on the example of Muslim women. An empirical study aimed at studying value orientations, identity, motivation for achieving leadership was organized with the help of 100 respondents – all women leaders, where 50 of them are Muslim women and 50 non-Muslim between the ages of 20 to 55. The respondents have professional education (Professional Education – 0.9%, Secondary Vocational Education – 10.4%, Higher Vocational Education – 82.1%, incomplete Higher Vocational Education – 2.8%, Candidate of Science – 3.8%.); work experience in a managerial position from 1 year to over 15 years; 50.9% profess Islam religion, 43.5% are representatives of Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, 2.8% are atheists, 2.8% are the other. Comparative analysis of the empirical study results was carried out using the U-Mann-Whitney test for diff erences, Student’s t-test, and the Spearman’s r-rank correlation coeffi cient in the statistical package of the SPSS 18.0 program (PASW Statistics 18.0). Analysis of the research results confi rmed the hypothesis that the portrait of a Muslim female leader contains distinctive features due to value orientations and the identifi cation of one’s own “self-image”.