Abstract: The present study examined the comparative strength of direct and indirect relationship among the variables Teaching Competency, Emotional intelligence, Emotional maturity and teaching interest through path analysis. A hypothesized model for teaching competency is developed with other three variables and Model fitting is done through IBM SPSS Amos and uses maximum likelihood to calculate all the path coefficients simultaneously. A path model was developed with emotional intelligence, emotional maturity and teaching interest as a predictor of teaching competency. All fit indexes indicated the model was an excellent fit to the data. The model was able to account for 45% of variance of the teaching competency of the student teachers.
Keywords: Teaching Competencies, Emotional Intelligence, Teaching Interest, Emotional maturity, Path Analysis, Path model,
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