Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy among B. Ed Trainees

Education provides the skills to the students that enhance their skills, prepare them physically, and develop them mentally. For the successful teaching, mere subject knowledge is not sufficient. On other hand, some effective skills which are linked with emotional intelligence are also required. These skills have major role on teachers? performance. Teachers are the backbone of the educational institutions, without teachers, these institutes are considered the body without soul. The students undergoing professional course in secondary teacher training are expected to have high level of emotional intelligence. According to Goleman (1998) the important competencies of Emotional Intelligence are Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Motivation, Empathy and Nurturing relationships. These characteristics reveal that Emotional Intelligence includes the ability to engage in sophisticated information processing about one?s own and others? emotions and the ability to use this information as a guide to thinking and behavior. 1. Se Self-efficacy refers to the ability of an individual to accomplish a task. Self-efficacy varies from 2. pe person to person. People with high self-efficacy have high self-confidence and they are generally 3. g goal oriented. The students studying in colleges of teacher education are expected to have high 4. le level of self-efficacy. This is because in the new era of drastic changes in the field of education, 5. B. B. Ed trainees should be equipped to cope with the changes in their future profession, i. e. teaching. . T The major objective of the study was to find out the relationship between Emotional Intelligence an d elf-Efficacy among B. Ed trainees and adopted survey method. The study revealed that there exists a positive co-relation between Emotional Intelligence and Self Efficacy among B. Ed trainees.