The Mediation Effect of Leader’s Trust in the Relationship between Flight Instructor Transformation Leadership and the Student Pilot Psychological Stability

Abstract

This thesis researched student pilots at certified flying school to prove several things as follows. First, this study tried to find out the influence of instructor’s leader trust to student pilot. Second, this study also tried to investigate the influence of student pilot’s psychological stability from leader trust. Third, this study tried to prove the mediation effect of leader trust between flight instructor’s transformation leadership and the student pilot psychological stability. The result of empirical research are as follows. First, the result of the verification of the relationship between transformative leadership and trust of leader showed that transformative leadership has a positive (+) influence to trust of leader. Second, the result of verification between leader trust and psychological stability relationship showed that trust of leader gives positive(+) influence to psychological stability. Third, the result of verification between transformative leadership and psychological stability showed that trust of leader gives positive(+) influence to psychological stability. I discussed implication from this study at the end and presented future research direction.