An Investigation Of Soft Skills And Self-Efficacy Of Higher Secondary Teachers

Abstract

The investigation of the present study is to find out soft skills and self-efficacy of higher secondary teachers. The Soft Skills Scale(SCS) constructed and validated by the investigator (2023) and  Self-Efficacy Scale (SES) developed by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh and Dr. ShrutiNarain (2006), were used to collect the data from a sample of 605 higher secondary teachers in Nilgiri District, Tamil Nadu State in India. The descriptive survey method has been followed and simple random sampling technique was used in administration of the research tools. The result of the analysis revealed that  there are significant differences in the gender and year of experience of higher secondary teachers with respect to their soft skills and self-efficacy, there is significant and positive relationship between sot skills and self-efficacy of higher secondary teachers, there is a significant contribution of self-efficacy and dependent variable on the self-efficacy of higher secondary teachers i.e. 43.2% of the total variance in sot skills is attributed by self-efficacy.