Self-efficacy among school teachers, occupational stress and job participation.

Educational Psychology Educational psychology is the science that studies human behaviour in educational situations during the learning process with all its elements and conditions, such as studying the psychological requirements for completing the educational process, understanding the mechanisms of the learning process, motivations of behaviour, mental processes, educational guidance, individual differences, and other topics that all flow into the educational environment, and everything that affects it. So it is a science that works on applying studies and research related to the educational environment by enriching those in charge of the learning process with concepts, principles, and modern methods, and the important theoretical foundations necessary to complete the process of learning and education, in addition to knowing and identifying educational problems, and their appropriate methods of solution. Educational psychology is one of the branches of psychology to study the behaviour of the learner in relation to his education. As specialized branch of psychology concerns itself with suggesting ways and means of improving the process and products of education, enabling the teacher to teach effectively and the learners to learn effectively with the minimum effort. It is thus designated as the service of education. It has simplified the tasks and improved the efficiency of the teacher or all those connected in the process and products of education by supplying them with the essential knowledge and skills in much need the same way as science and technology has helped in making possible maximum output through minimum input in terms of time and labour in our day-to-day activities. Educational psychology is that branch of psychology which deals with the application of psychological findings in the field of education. In other words it deals with the human behaviour in educational situations. It is the systematic study of the development of the individual in the educational settings. It is the scientific study of human behaviour by which it can be understood, predicated and directed by education to achieve goals of life.