Locus of Control and Gender as the Main Determinants of Role Conflict among Secondary School Teachers

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to examine the role conflict of secondary school teachers in relation to locus of control and gender. Role conflict was treated as dependent variable whereas locus of control (internal and external) and gender (male and female) were treated as independent variables. Descriptive survey method was employed for the present study. A sample of 350 teachers was taken using multi-stage random sampling technique. Teachers Role Conflict Scale by Gupta and Nain (2016) and Teachers Locus of Control Scale by Gupta and Nain (2016) were used to collect the data. Two-Way ANOVA with 2x2 factorial design was used to analyze the data. Levene’s Test of Homogeneity of Variance was also applied to test the assumption of homogeneity of variance for ANOVA. Main effect of locus of control on role conflict of secondary school teachers was found to be not significant whereas the main effect of gender on role conflict of secondary school teachers was found to be significant. A significant interaction effect of locus of control and gender was reported on role conflict of secondary school teachers. The findings of the present study further revealed that the male teachers having external locus of control have high role conflict than the male teachers having internal locus of control; and the male teachers have high role conflict than the female teachers.