Impact of emotional maturity, intelligence and self-efficacy on the academic achievement of teacher trainees

Pages: 395-397
M. Lakshmi Narasimha (ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, S. V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh)
L. K. Reddy (Department of Psychology, S. V. University,Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh)

The present study was undertaken to study the impact of emotional maturity, intelligence and self-efficacy on the academic achievement of teacher trainees. The sample of the study consisted of 400 teacher trainees selected from different B.Ed colleges of Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. The tools used in the study are Emotional maturity scale, Raven’s Progressive matrices and General self-efficacy scale (GSE). The data was analyzed by using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The result shows that there is a significant difference between male and female trainees with regard to emotional maturity, intelligence and self-efficacy.