Emotions come under the affective domain and have a potential to impact the personal as well as professional lives of individuals. Emotional understanding and emotional feelings towards teaching job may influence the quality of instruction.
The present investigation was aimed to study the effect of emotional maturity and job satisfaction on teaching effectiveness of school teachers.
The participants were school teachers (N = 600) of India.
A 2 X 2 factorial design was used and factorial ANOVA was employed for data analysis.
Emotionally mature teachers were more effective as compared to emotionally immature teachers. Job satisfied teachers scored higher on teacher effectiveness scale than job dissatisfied teachers.
Higher emotional maturity and job satisfaction leads to better teaching performance of school teachers.
affective determinants, emotional maturity, job satisfaction, teaching effectiveness
