Influence of Self-esteem on Teachers' Job Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Orlu Education Zone, Imo State, Nigeria

Abstract

In this study, the researcher investigated the Influence of Self-esteem on Teachers' Job Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Orlu Education Zone, Imo State. The research design adopted for the study was the descriptive research design. Two research questions and two null-hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study consisted of 15,248 teachers in the state public secondary schools and the proportionate random sampling technique was used to choose 4,326 as the sample size for the study. The instrument used for data collection from the respondents was the ‘Influence of Self-esteem on Teachers' Job Effectiveness in Public Secondary schools in Imo State Questionnaire, (ISETJEPSSISQ)'. The instrument was validated by three experts, two from the Department of Educational Management and Policy and one from the Education Foundations. The instrument was divided into two. Section A was concerned with self-esteem and teachers' confidence in themselves for job performance while section B dealt with self-esteem and teachers' job effectiveness. The two sections of the instrument gave a correlational value of 0.86 which was considered high enough for the study. The reliability of the instrument was established through pilot-testing and analysis by Cronbach alpha. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. For the purpose of analysis, each item was weighted and scored as; Strongly Agreed (SA) = 4points, Agreed (A) = 3points, Disagreed (D) = 2points and Strongly Disagreed (SD) – 1point. In testing the null-hypotheses, if p-value (p < 0.05) was equal or greater than 0.05, the null-hypothesis was accepted but where it was otherwise, it was rejected. The finding of the study among others was thatmany teachers do not perform on their jobs because of low self-esteem. It was then recommended that principals of schools in Imo State, Nigeria should organize seminars to boost their teacher's self-esteem for effective job performance.