Self Efficacy of Women Secondary School Teachers in Relation to their Locus of Control

The Present Study aims to explore the relationship between self efficacy and locus of control of private secondary school teachers. Person's beliefs in his or her ability are self efficacy. Locus of control is a psychological concept which refers to how strongly people believe that they have control over the situations and experiences that affect their lives. Sample 200 secondary school women teachers was selected for the present study. For this purpose Teacher Self Efficacy Scale by A.K Singh and Shurti Narain and Locus of Control Scale by Sanjay Vohar were used. Mean SD and Correlation were used for analysis of data. From the analysis it was concluded that only 5.5% of the women have high self efficacy and most of the women teacher working in private schools have poor self efficacy. It can conclude from data collected that Most of the teachers have not any control on their own outcomes they are governed by other person and their environment. There exists a moderate positive correlation between locus of control and self efficacy of secondary school women teacher.