Investigating some of the important antecedents and consequences of teachers’ resiliency

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesized causal model of antecedents and consequences of teachers’ resiliency in different education levels. The statistical population consisted of all teachers working in primary, middle and secondary education in the city of Bushehr, of which 400 teachers were selected by multistage cluster sampling. Connor-Davidson Resilience Inventory (2003), Work Preference Scale Amabile et al ,Emotion Regulation Questionnaire John and Gross (2003), Life Orientation Test Scheier and Carver (1994), General Self-Efficacy Scale Sherer and Maddox (1982), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Zimet et al (1988), The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations Endler and Parker (1990), job performance questionnaire Patterson (1970), Family Questionnaire Asptain and Baldwin (1983) , Quality of Life Questionnaire Weir and Sherbon (1992) and King Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire (2008) were used to collect data. Structural Equation Statistical method also used to test the research hypotheses. The results of direct relations antecedent resiliency variables in a given model showed that paths between coping strategies, internal-external motivation, emotional regulation, family performance and spiritual intelligence and resiliency is significant, but direct relationship between social support and optimism and resiliency variables were non-significant. Also, direct relationship between resiliency with outcome variables such as quality of life and job performance were significant but there was not significant relationship between resiliency with self-efficacy. Overall, the model results show that the proposed model indices’ fitness is acceptable. In order to better fitness, a modified version was evaluated. The results imply the improvement of fitness of modified model.