Una Scala per misurare i fattori interni ed esterni della resilienza professionale degli insegnanti / A Measurement Scale for the internal and external factors of teachers' professional resilience

In recent years, resilience has emerged as an important dimension that plays a key role in teacher education settings and as a central area of research in education, especially in those settings where high levels of stress have been observed in the practice of the teaching profession (Hong, 2012; Scheopner, 2010). Internationally, numerous studies have been concerned with assessing the components of teacher resilience and its risk and protective factors, but relevant instruments capable of measuring professional resilience are still scarce. The purpose of the present study is to measure teachers' professional resilience factors that influence job satisfaction. Participants in the research were 556 Italian teachers of all grades. The Teachers’ Professional Resilience Scale (SRPI) and the Job Satisfaction Scale (SSL) were used to collect data. The results of the exploratory analysis showed that the scales were able to detect the characteristics considered and that the factors of teachers' job resilience were able to predict the values taken by the factors of job satisfaction and explain a significantly non-zero share of the variance.