Self-assessment of resilience of future educators in crisis

Abstract

Future educators will face various challenges in their careers that will require a resilient response, and the covid-19 epidemic is just one of many. In this regard, we wanted to find out how students, future educators, assess their own resilient protective factors, how those relate to each other and which of them play a central role. The in-person survey involved 249 students who completed an anonymous questionnaire by self-assessing twelve protective factors of resilience. We used the Pearson correlation coefficient to determine the correlation between resilient factors and establish a network of interconnectedness between them. The results revealed that solution-focused behaviour (which is related to ability to identify challenges) has a central role in students? resilience. We assumed that one protective factor could contribute to the creation of new protective factors (e. g. focused on identifying challenges correlates with focus on finding solutions to them by using creative approaches, experiencing competence and success and orientation towards lifelong learning). However, this assumption should be further explored.