Role of Self-Esteem and General Self-Efficacy in Teachers’ Efficacy in Primary Schools

Abstract

Teachers' self-efficacy is assumed to be affected by self-esteem and teachers' general self-efficacy. Self-esteem is considered to be a trait reflecting an individual's characteristic affective evaluation of self (Gist & Mitchell, 1992). The current study explores the factors that would affect teachers' efficacy in cultural context. In the current study 200 teachers participated from various public schools. Multivariate analysis of variance and correlational analysis were employed to understand the effect of self-esteem and self-efficacy on teachers' efficacy. The results indicated significant relationship between teachers' efficacy and general self-efficacy and self-esteem. It was found that low self-esteem and low general self-efficacy led to low teachers' efficacy and consequently substandard performance in the class. On the contrary, high teachers' efficacy was a reflection of high self-esteem and high general self-efficacy. Self-esteem influenced only in decision making, perceived education self-efficacy, perceived disciplinary self-efficacy, ability to get cooperation from community, and in the development of positive school environment of teachers' efficacy. General self-efficacy influenced all the components of teachers' efficacy except decision making and ability to influence school council/authorities. In the study, it was observed that self-esteem significantly influenced teachers' efficacy.

Humility and forgiveness as predictors of teacher self-efficacy

“…Studies on the relations between self-efficacy and positive psychology variables show the positive relation of self-efficacy with optimism (Chemers et al, 2000;Hulbert and Morrison, 2006;McGuigan and Hoy, 2006;Robinson and Snipes, 2009;Akhtar et al, 2013), hope (Bryant and Cvengors, 2004;Kumarakulakisignam, 2002;Lackaye et al, 2006;Robinson and Snipes, 2009), selfesteem (Khan et al, 2015) and zest for work (Sezgin and Erdogan, 2015). With the results of these researches, self-efficacy is believed to have a positive relation with positive psychology variables.…”

“…Some studies indicate that self-efficacy increases teacher performance and student success and it is regarded as important and valuable for teachers (Bandura et al, 1996;Caprara et al, 2006;Usher and Pajares, 2006). Several studies show a positive relation between self-efficacy and academic optimism (Chemers et al, 2000;Hulbert and Morrison, 2006;McGuigan and Hoy, 2006;Robinson and Snipes, 2009;Akhtar et al, 2013), hope (Bryant and Cvengros, 2004;Kumarakulakisignam, 2002;Lackaye et al, 2006;Robinson and Snipes, 2009), self-esteem (Khan et al, 2015) and zest for work (Sezgin and Erdogan, 2015).…”

Auto-efficacité des enseignants : quels outils d’évaluation utiliser ?

“…les indices de consistance interne du score total de l'échelle et des trois facteurs sont satisfaisants (entre 0,75 et 0,98), excepté pour le facteur 3 dans l'étude de sharma et ses collaborateurs (2015) Bien qu'elle présente des indices de consistance interne satisfaisants (voir tableau 2), il existe différentes versions de cette échelle, où le nombre d'items varie considérablement. Parmi les articles recensés, seules quatre études ont utilisé la version originale (al-Fadhli & singh, 2006 ;Khan, Fleva, & Qasi, 2015 ;rashidi & Moghadam, 2014 ;woolfolk hoy & spero, 2005). les autres études ont utilisé soit une version abrégée (engstrand & roll-Pettersson, 2014 ;Guo, Justice, sawyer, & tompkins, 2011 ;Guo, Piasta, Justice, & Kaderavek, 2010 ;hines & Kritsonis, 2010 ;locasalecrouch, davis, wiens, & Pianta, 2012 ;van Uden, Ritzen, & Pieters, 2013), soit une version adaptée au contexte culturel ou au contexte de l'étude (Faleye, 2008 ;Guo, dynia, Pelatti, & Justice, 2014 ;Kim & Kim, 2010 ;rimm-Kaufman & sawyer, 2004).…”

Do Environmental Education School Coordinators Have a Mission?

“…One of the important measures of motivation for the implementation of EE is the teachersí perceived self-efficacy (Moseley, Reinke & Bookout, 2002). The self-efficacy concept has been investigated by a number of studies (Bandura, 1977;Dembo & Gibson, 1985;Evans & Tribble, 1986;Evers, Brouwers, & Tomic, 2002;Khan, Fleva, & Qazi, 2015;Reilly, Dhingra, & Boduszek, 2014); even so, it remains open to further research, especially in the EE context.…”