Love Languages in Leadership: Teacher, Student, Parent, Politician, and Church Leader

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This research aimed at determining the "Love Languages" of the leaders in school, at home, and in the community of Nagcarlan, Laguna, while encouraging them to keep the spirit of leadership and service to others. Coming from different aspects of leading, the researchers picked six from each of these to be their respondents-teachers, students, parents, politicians, and church leaders.

METHODS

The survey questions were given to the thirty chosen leaders. The researchers went to Brgy. Sta. Lucia, Talangan, Yukos, Alibungbungan, Malinao, Arela, Poblacion, and at Talangan Integrated National High School. Survey questions have two parts-researcher-made a question about the level of commitment in leadership and standardized test about love languages by Gary Chapman. Pre-survey was administered so as to know the level of commitment of the respondents. Based on the respondents' love language, the researchers made an experiment of expressing love to them. Then, a post-survey was done to know if the level of commitment increased after the experiment on love languages.

RESULTS

In all aspects of leading, the researchers found out that "Quality Time" is the most wanted Love Language followed by "Acts of Service", the third is "Physical Touch", fourth is "Receiving Gifts", and the least is "Word of Affirmation". The researchers also found out that during the pre-survey, respondents’ level of commitment has a mean of 4.08 and a standard deviation of 1.09, indicating a varied level of commitment to leadership. For the post-survey, the mean level of commitment increased to 4.26, with a standard deviation of 0.89, showing more comparable answers from the respondents.

DISCUSSIONS

Through the social experiment of expressing love language to the leaders in school, at home and community, the level of commitment can be increased. Thus, at the end of this study, the researchers suggested that leaders should be more acquainted, give importance, and widen their understanding regarding their own love language and their subordinates as well. This would give them a proper venue to grow personally and in the aspect of leadership. Future researchers were also suggested to replicate this study but with a wider scope in terms of an aspect of leadership and increased sample size.