Abstract

The study aimed to examine and compare the professional commitment among senior secondary school teachers w.r.t. (i) Gender (ii) Varying length of teaching experience in relation to their emotional competence. Descriptive survey method of research was used in the study. A sample of 600 senior secondary school teachers from Punjab state were taken for the study, out of which 351 teachers were male and 249 teachers were female; Similarly 253 teachers were having less than ten years of teaching experience and 347 teachers were having more than ten years of teaching experience. The data was collected by using standardized tool as professional commitment scale for teachers by Kaur and Kaur (2011) and emotional competence Scale by Sharma and Bhardwaj (1998). Statistical techniques like co-efficient of correlation were used to analyze the collected data. On the bases of data analyzed, it was found significant positive relationship between professional commitment and emotional competence of senior secondary school teachers irrespective of their gender and length of teaching experience.

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