The Relationship between Self-efficacy and Effectiveness of Principals from the Perspective of Principals and Teachers of Secondary and High Schools (Case Study of Chamestan Region)

The present study seeks to identify the association between self-efficacy and effectiveness of secondary and high school principals. The type of study is applied and its method is descriptive. The population consisted of 483 principals and teachers of Chamestan region. Following Morgan’s Table, a sample of 230 individuals was formed via simple random sampling. For measuring both self-efficacy and effectiveness a researcher-made questionnaire (Shalikar, 1999) with internal consistency of 0.77 using Cronbach’s alpha was employed. To analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, mode and median, inferential statistics including Pearson correlation was utilized. One of the most important findings of the study was that there is a significant and positive correlation between self-efficacy, self-belief, self-regulation, self-measurement and principals’ effectiveness. However, components of self-leadership had no significant association with effectiveness in either level. Also, self-excitement had no significant correlation with effectiveness in high school.