A Study On Investigating The Relationship Of Life Satisfaction With Mental Health, Social Competence And Sense Of Coherence Among Teacher Educators

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between life satisfaction, mental health, social competence, and sense of coherence among Teacher Educators. The study aims to assess whether these factors significantly contribute to teacher effectiveness and to analyze differences in teacher effectiveness across demographic variables such as gender, location, and academic background. The sample consists of 600 Teacher Educators and were randomly selected from different self-financed educational colleges affiliated to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Punjabi University, Patiala. The data was collected by using standardized scale of Life satisfaction scale (Alam & Srivastva 2019Revised), Mental Health scale (Sharma,2009 & validated on teacher educators by Sharma & Gera 2022), Social competence scale Teacher version by Corrigan,2003), Sense of Coherence, SOC Scale (Antonovsky 2016 revised). The data obtained was analysed statistically with the help of Mean, SD, t-ratio and ‘r’ and used to arrive at the following conclusions: The findings indicate that there are significant differences in life satisfaction, mental health, and social competence scores among teacher educators based on gender, locale, and stream. Specifically, variations in life satisfaction and mental health were observed across all three factors: gender, locale, and stream, while social competence differed significantly by gender and locale but showed no difference between science and arts stream teacher educators. Conversely, no significant difference was found in the sense of coherence scores based on gender and locale; however, a significant difference was observed between science and arts stream teacher educators at the 0.05 level of significance. Additionally, life satisfaction was found to be significantly correlated to mental health, social competence, and sense of coherence among teacher educators.