The concept of self-efficacy has received great attention over the course of more than 35 years. It has been studied extensively since Albert Pandora introduced the term in 1986. He referred to self-efficacy as one of the basic components in the human personality as well as a major builder in the performance of the human behavior.
This study aims to determining the degree of self-efficacy of social workers at the schools of special education. and determining the degree of efficacy and perseverance, self-confidence, initiation, and knowledge access of social workers at these schools. The study is applied on 35 social workers at 16 different schools of special education in Qalyubia Governorate. The results show that based-statistical differences do exist between the degrees average of male and female social workers at special education schools for the disabled on the scale of self-efficacy regarding efficacy, perseverance, self-confidence, and initiation. The total results are in favor of the male social workers. On the other hand, there are no based-statistical differences between the degrees average of male and female social workers for the knowledge access.