A STUDY OF TEACHER EFFICACY OF MALE & FEMALE SCHOOL TEACHERS IN REFERENCE TO THEIR SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE

Over the past decades, the pressure of modern life has grown enormously & engulfed the individual with its mounting demands, both personally and professionally. An important goal of mankind has been pursuit of happiness & a healthy life. In our fast placed time driven growth oriented & profit abscessed modern technological societies, people experience many pressures that exert a heavy toll emotionally, mentally & physically. Modern psychologists take pride in mentioning Emotional Quotient (E.Q.) and Spiritual Quotient (S.Q) for Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Spiritual Intelligence (SI) correspondingly, giving due recognition to the integrated psycho-socio-spiritual construct of behavior while emotional intelligence is the affective adaptive capacity for smooth social adjustment, the existence of spiritual intelligence has been recognized in solving problems with meaning and value , and is considered the ultimate intelligence (Nagpal and Joneja, 2005). Spiritual intelligence can be defined as a deep selfawareness in which one becomes more and more aware of the dimensions of self, not simply as a body, but as a mind, body and spirit (Sisk and Torrance, 2001 and Penrose et al. 2007).