Psychological Attitudes towards the Teaching Profession and Its Relationship to Self-Efficacy among Students of Some Faculties of Education at Sudanese Universities

Abstract

The subject of educational and psychological trends occupies a special importance in all branches of education and psychology, and it is one of the most important results of the process of socialization, and at the same time it is considered one of the most important motives of behavior that play basic roles in controlling and directing it. and Self-efficacy is one of the directions of an individual's behavior and what he/she believes about his/her abilities and confidence to perform certain behaviors. When an individual trusts his/her self-efficacy, he/she tends to be more accomplished, self-esteem and self-confidence, and when the individual is convinced that he/she will succeed in implementing the appropriate behavior to achieve the desired results. The current study aimed to identify psychological attitudes towards the teaching profession and its relationship to self-efficacy among students of some Faculties of Education at Sudanese Universities. The study followed the descriptive analytical method.The researcher used the psychological attitudes scale adapted from the scale of Muhammad Hamzah Amir Khan and Sultan Saad Bukhari (1991) and was prepared according to the LIKERT Model, where the scale in its final form consisted of (25) items distributed over (5) domains and a measure of self-efficacy according to Schwarzer 1994.  The study sample was chosen randomly from students of some colleges of education at Sudanese Universities (males and females) within scientific and literary disciplines at all levels for the academic year (2022-2023), where the sample size was (237) male and female students. the data were unloaded and statistical processing was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The study reached several results, including: There is a positive correlation between psychological attitudes towards the teaching profession and self-efficacy among students of some Faculties of Education at Sudanese Universities. There are statistically significant differences in the psychological attitudes of students of some Faculties of Education at Sudanese Universities towards the teaching profession, due to gender, specialization (science or arts), academic level, and university. Developing educational programs in a way that works to develop and support the positive attitudes of students of the Faculties of Education towards teaching, especially the arts departments, and the final levels, and applying measures of students' attitudes towards the teaching profession to students applying to study at Faculties of Education before joining the study to benefit from its results in knowing their attitudes towards the teaching profession.