Investigating the relationship between Turkish EFL teachers' subjective well-being and their occupational resilience in university contexts

This research aims to identify the problems that Turkish EFL teachers' have by focusing on the subjects such as well-being of the teachers as well as their occupational will power to overcome challenges, they encounter in an educational manner. The study addresses to these issues by working around criteria based on their gender teaching experience and the kind of institution in which they are employed. Lastly the research aims to find a correlation between teachers' well-being and resilience. 120 teachers working at the five different language schools in Turkey were picked to participate in this research. Two different data collections tools employed which were the "Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ)" and "Occupational Resilience Beliefs Scale for Teacher Candidates (ORBSTC)" alongside the information gathered from these two questionnaires demographic data on the participants was also included. The statistical tool known as SPSS was used to do the analysis on the data. Frequency, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation values were analyzed, and the independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to examine the data. In addition, Pearson-Moment Product Correlation and multiple regression analyses were undertaken. Through the research that is carried out it was proven that there was a strong, positive and statistically significant correlation between teachers' wellbeing and the occupational resilience.