Self-Efficacy and Professional Pleasure of Social Welfare and Tribal Welfare Residential Secondary School Teachers: An Investigation

Abstract

The present investigation is to make a probe into the relationship between Teacher Self-Efficacy and Professional Pleasure among Social Welfare and Tribal Welfare Residential Secondary School Teachers (N = 143), besides testing whether the correlations obtained for the comparable sample differ significantly and concludes that both the aspects are significant statistically. In respect of Teacher Self-efficacy, the variables like Sex, Age, Qualification and Experience are found statistically corroborated. In respect of Professional Pleasure all the variables viz., Sex, Locality, Age, Marital Status, Qualification, Experience and Type of Institution are statistically significant. Further, Teacher Self-efficacy and Professional Pleasure are independent but they are inter-dependent. The investigation shows that there is significance of relationship between the Dimensions of Teacher Self-efficacy and Professional Pleasure of the Teachers. The area wise means in merit order of Teacher Self-efficacy is – Vicarious experience, Mastery experience, Physiological and Psychological experience and social experience, while the mean value of dimension wise of Teachers Professional Pleasure in merit order is – Personal, Professional, Social and Intellectual aspects.