Professional Commitment of Teachers in Relation to Their Work Motivation and Self-Efficacy

In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to study and compare the Professional Commitment of secondary school teachers, to study and compare the Self-efficacy of secondary school teachers and to find out the relationship between Professional Commitment and Self-efficacy of secondary school teachers. The present study has been conducted on a higher secondary teacher, working in Government and Government aided, and private secondary school at Kanyakumari of Tamilnadu, India. Professional Commitment Scale PCS – Constructed and Validated by the investigator and research supervisor (2022), Work Motivation Scale WMS – Constructed and validated by Vijayalakshmi S and George Stephen (2017) Teachers Self-Efficacy Scale (TSES) – constructed and validated by the investigator and research supervisor (2022) were used for data collection. The findings of the study revealed that the female higher secondary teachers have more professional commitment as compared to male teachers. There is a significant difference in Professional Commitment of higher secondary teachers with respect to Gender, Locality of the school, Marital Status, Age, Type of Management and Teaching Experience. There is a significant difference in Work Motivation of higher secondary teachers with respect to Gender, Locality of the school, Marital Status, Age, and Teaching Experience. There is no significant difference in Work Motivation of higher secondary teachers with respect to Type of Management. There is a significant difference in Self-Efficacy of higher secondary teachers with respect to Gender, Locality of the school, Marital Status, Age, Type of Management and Teaching Experience.