Relationship among Self-efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, and Teachers’ Immunity: The Case of Iranian Language centers and Public Schools

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Mehrnoosh Haji Jalili ¹ , Mehrdad Sepehri ² , Sajad Shafiee ³

1 - Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran
2 - Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran
3 - Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

Received: 2022-03-07 Accepted : 2022-03-23 Published : 2023-01-01

Keywords: emotional intelligence, Self-efficacy, language centers, public schools, teachers’ immunity,

Abstract :

During the last decade, the issue of teachers’ immunity and its relation with other affective factors has engrossed the consideration of some researchers. The present research was carried out to determine the relationship among emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and teachers’ immunity in Iranian language centers and public schools. To achieve this objective, one hundred EFL instructors teaching in public schools (N=50) and language centers (N=50), in Isfahan, were selected through the convenience sampling method to act as participants of the study. They were given three questionnaires on Self-Efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, and Teachers’ Immunity, and the resulting scores were analyzed statistically. The obtained results revealed that in language centers, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence could not predict the teachers’ immunity. However, there was a substantial association between the teachers’ scores obtained from three questionnaires. These findings might have suggestions for the decision-makers in the Ministry of Education to provide the facilities needed to improve teachers’ immunity.

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