Type of Institution, Academic Stream and Locus of Control as Indicators of Role Conflict among Teacher Educators: An Empirical Study

The present study was undertaken to explore the main and interaction effects of type of institution, academic stream and locus of control on the role conflict of teacher educators working in B. Ed. colleges. Role conflict was treated as dependent variable and type of institution (govt./govt. aided & self-financing); academic stream (science & arts); and locus of control (internal & external) as independent variables. Normative survey method was employed for the investigation. Multistage stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample of 300 teacher educators working in B. Ed. colleges for the present study. Teacher's Role Conflict Scale and Teacher's Locus of Control Scale were developed by Gupta and Nain for collecting data. Balanced Three Way ANOVA with 2×2×2 factorial design was used for the purpose of data analysis and Hartley's Test of Homogeneity of Variance was applied to test the assumption of homogeneity of variance for ANOVA. The findings of the study revealed that main effects of all the three independent variables i.e. type of institution, academic stream and locus of control on role conflict of teacher educators were found to be significant. Significant double interaction effects of type of institution and academic stream; type of institution and locus of control on the role conflict of teacher educators were reported whereas no significant double interaction effect of academic stream and locus of control on the role conflict among teacher educators was observed. No significant triple interaction effect of type of institution, academic stream and locus of control on the role conflict of teacher educators was found.