As can be seen in Table 5, there was a .1255 difference favor of female students in terms of the averages of male and female students obtained from the emotional intelligence scale. In order to determine whether this difference was statistically significant, a t-test was conducted by using SPSS 18.0 software and it was found to be 2.174. As the p-value was .031 < .05 when calculated with a 95% confidence interval, it can be said that the difference between the emotional intelligence levels of female and male students was statistically significant. In line with this result, with a 95% confidence interval, it can be said that the emotional intelligence levels of female students were higher than male students.
Table 6. Findings Related to the Difference between the Academic Self-efficacy Perceptions of Secondary Education Students in terms of Gender Variable