Do personality traits have influence on self-efficacy belief of school teachers?

Pages:43-45
Ritupama Basak and Anjali Ghosh (Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

In the present scenario teachers play crucial roles to help schools adjust with the rapid pace of changes in the society. Fulfillment of these crucial roles depends on how the teacher perfectly does it. This perfection is influenced by the nature of the teachers’ characteristic features i.e. their personality traits . It is also important for teachers to have sufficient amount of belief within oneself that work can be carried out efficiently i.e. to be self-‘;;fficacious. The purpose of this study is to explore the patterns ofrelationship between personality traits and self-efficacy in different groups of school teachers selected from different schools of Kolkata. Data were obtained from the school teachers of Kolkata. Teacher Self-efficacy Scale and NEO five factor questionnaire have been used in this study. Findings revealed that neuroticism is negatively and significantly correlated with self-efficacy whereas extraversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness are positively and significantly correlated with self-efficacy. Stepwise regression analysis indicated that self-efficacy can be significantly predicted by concentiousness . This study highlighted that teachers with higher self efficacy are often characterized as having more positive personality traits like extraversion and agreeableness and lesser negative traits like neuroticism .