Resilience as predictor of happiness: Investigation of teacher sample

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether happiness of teachers change according to resilience, sex, marital status, task area, service period, student number in the school and the position of reading book variables or not.The sample of the research is composed of 409 (169 women (%41.3), 240 men (%58.7)) teachers who work in secondary schools in Battalgazi district of Malatya. "Personal Information Form", "The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short Form-OHQ-SF" and "The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)" were applied to teachers in the research. T-Test for dual variables and ANOVA Statistics Technique and LSD Technique for multiple variables were used in the analyses. According to the result of the research; it was seen that there is no significant difference for happiness in terms of sex, marital status, task area and service period variables. It was determined that there is a significant relation between happiness and the position of reading book and student number in the school variables. It was concluded that there are 48 correlation relation between resilience and happiness, besides resilience predicts %24 of happiness. The results of the research were discussed in accordance with the relevant literature and the suggestions were offered.