The relationship between teachers' psychological resilience and organizational happiness

This study investigates teachers' psychological resilience and organizational happiness levels and reveals the relationship between these two variables. Additionally, the research targets comparing teachers' psychological resilience and organizational happiness levels by various demographics. A quantitative research method, namely the survey model, was employed in the study; 392 teachers from primary, middle, and high schools in the central districts of Sakarya Province participated in the study. Data were collected through the "Psychological Resilience Scale" developed by Friborg et al. (2003) and the "Organizational Happiness Scale" developed by Demo and Paschoal (2003). SPSS software was used for data analysis. Due to the non-normal distribution of the data, non-parametric tests (Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis H) were used for comparisons, while the Spearman correlation coefficient was preferred to reveal the relationship between variables. The research findings indicate that teachers' levels of psychological resilience are "high" and organizational happiness are "moderate." On the other hand, organizational happiness varies statistically significantly only by branch. Primary school teachers have higher levels of organizational happiness than subject teachers. Lastly, the findings suggest that there is no statistically significant relationship between the research variables.