Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Skill as Predictors of Self-Efficacy in the Sport Teachers

The study was designed to investigate emotional intelligence and leadership as predictors of self-efficacy in the sport teachers of Chhattisgarh state. Atotal of 30 sport teachers from government Schools of Chhattisgarh state were selected as subjects. In this present study self-efficacy (SE) was considered as a dependent variable and Emotional Intelligence (EI) and leadership Skill (LS) were considered as Independent variables. Researchers used descriptive survey research design. Two inventories, Emotional Intelligence Inventory (Hyde, Pethe, & Dhar) Occupational Self-efficacy Scale (Pethe, Choudhary, & Dhar) Leadership Behavior Scale (Asha Hinger), were used for data collection. Multiple regression was used for data analysis. To find out the best predicting factor of SE, EI and LS significant values of F is 6.710. Leadership skill and emotional intelligence was found to be significant predictors. EI contributed 3 7.5% of its variance out of the total variance. Leadership contributed 10.7% of its variance out of the total variance.