The purpose of this study is to measure the efficacy of health teachers and the degree of
decision making participation, to examine how personal characteristic factors(teachers' age
and teaching training experience) and school environmental factors(school types and school
location) affect the health teacher efficacy and the degree of decision making participation,
and to identify the relationships between the degree of decision making participation and
the efficacy of health teachers. The subjects of this study were 118 female health teachers
being served schools in Gyeonggi?do. Independent variables were included: teachers' age,
teaching training experience, school types(elementary, middle or high schools), and school
location(metropolitan city or small/medium city). Dependent variables were included: health
teacher efficacy and the degree of decision making participation. The perceived health
teacher efficacy questionnaire(24 items) included four sub categories of efficacy; instruction
efficacy, health-service efficacy, community-connection efficacy, and task-interpersonal efficacy.
The self-report questionnaire of decision making participation degree(10 items) included two
elements: democratic decision making and the contents of decision making participating.
The results showed that school type factors had the influence on instruction efficacy and
community-connection efficacy. Heath teachers of small/medium city schools showed higher
instruction efficacy and community-connection efficacy than them of metropolitan city
schools. Second, teaching training experience factor had the influence on degree of decision
making participation and school location factors had the influence on degree of decision
making participation. Elementary school teachers showed higher degree of decision making
participation than middle and high school teachers. Lastly, the degree of decision making
participation of school organizational climate had low-level positive co-relation with entire
health teachers efficacy, community-connection efficacy, and task-interpersonal efficacy. For
promoting the health teacher efficacy, it is needed to provide teacher training programs of
four sub efficacy categories, and create the organization culture of democratic
decision-making and mutual respect school climate