Education Management from Indonesia: The Political Influence of Regional Heads

The aim of this research is to present an understanding of the effect of political regional heads that causes anxiety on organizational commitment, the effect of anxiety on self-efficacy, and the effect of anxiety after there is a mediator of self-efficacy on organizational commitment. The effect of anxiety on self-efficacy was 1.16%, the effect of anxiety on organizational commitment was 12.1%. After the mediating variable (self-efficacy) in the second regression the R-Square became 49.8%. Thus Self-Efficacy plays a role in strengthening organizational commitment on the influence of Anxiety. The author concludes that anxiety affects low self-efficacy. In other words, self-efficacy is able to fortify the influence of anxiety in this case anxiety due to the succession of regional heads. Organizational commitment can be increased by the presence of self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is clearly able to maintain the commitment of the principal even though there are concerns about the succession of regional heads.