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| Published: June 30, 2017

Relationship between Gratitude and Teacher Effectiveness

Laly Augustine ,

PhD Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, India Google Scholar More about the auther

Dr. Romate John ,

Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Central University of Karnataka, India Google Scholar More about the auther

Dr. Yuju Francis

Counselling Psychologist and Trainer, Montfort Counselling Center, Uppal, Hyderabad, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.124/20170403

DOI:10.25215/0403.124

ABSTRACT

The researcher in this study explores teachers’ positive emotion of gratitude and its effect on teacher effectiveness. The objective of the study was to discover the relationship between gratitude and teacher effectiveness .The researcher undertook a study in which 65 high school teachers from Karnataka state participated. The researcher has employed simple random method to fulfill the sampling procedure. Gratitude questionnaire (McCullough et al., 2002) and Teacher Effectiveness questionnaire (Kulsum, 2000) were used for data collection via survey method. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was administered to find the correlation of the variables. The findings confirmed that there was positive correlation between gratitude and teacher effectiveness. Moreover, gratitude and factors of teacher effectiveness are also found positive relationship except class management of the teachers. The implications and limitations of the study are also discussed.
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Laly Augustine @ rincysh@gmail.com

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

DIP: 18.01.124/20170403

DOI:10.25215/0403.124

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Published in   Volume 04, Issue 3, April-June, 2017