Relationship between Character Strengths and Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs for Students' Moral Education: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Teacher Behavior

This study examined the mediating effect of interpersonal teacher behavior on the relationship between character strengths and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs for students' moral education. In a sample consisting of 200 teachers (100 male 100 female), the Short Measure of Character Strength, the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction and Teacher Efficacy for Moral Education Scale were administered. Results showed that the partially mediated model of interpersonal teacher behavior on the relationship between character strengths and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs for students' moral education had acceptable fit to data. In these hypothesized model, character strengths and interpersonal teacher behavior accounted for 25% of the variance in self-efficacy beliefs for students' moral education. These finding show that the part of available variance in teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs for students’ moral education in the context of prediction the teachers' beliefs by character strengths, accounted for interpersonal teacher behavior.