งานวิจัยภาวะผู้นำตนเองในอนาคต should continue along the lines of these current trends. In particular, future empirical research effort should be focused on further examinations of the intercultural aspects of self-leadership, self leadership contingency and outcome factors, and the role of self leadership within the shared leadership process. Future self leadership research should also empirically investigate the way in which self leadership processes operate within the larger theoretical contexts of self regulation, social cognitive. intrinsic motivation and self-control theories. For instance, future research should directly examine the effectiveness of self-leadership strategies in improving self-regulation. Although self leadership strategies are generally portrayed as efficacious for improving self-focus, goal-setting processes, goal valence and saliency, feedback process and task-related confidence or performance expectancies, very little empirical research has examined these relationships. Thus, research endeavors should examine the extent to which self-leadership strategies facilitate improvements in measurable aspects of the self-regulatory process. Future research should also examine the distinctiveness of self-leadership strategy dimensions at the measurement level in a comparison of scales designed to measure Self-leadership, such as Houghton and Neck's(2002) , Revised Self Leadership Questionnaire and instruments designed to directly measure self regulatory processes, such as a revised version of Kuhl's(1994) action-state orientation scale(Diefendorff et al, 2000).