Investigation of cognitive flexibility and psychological resilience levels of various professions working in special education centers

The aim of this research is to analyze cognitive flexibility and psychological resilience levels of special education teachers, physiotherapists and psychologists working in special education centers in terms of different variables. The study group of the research is consist of 116 people who are working as special education teachers, physiotherapists and psychologists at special education and rehabilitation centers guaranteed by the national ministry of education in the european side of istanbul during the 2017-2018 academic years. Data were obtained by Demographic Information Form, Cognitive Flexibility Scale and Psychological Resilience Scale for Adults in the study. In data analysis, for normal non-scattering data Mann Whitney-U Test, Kruskal Wallis H-Test, Spearman Correlation, for normal scattering data T test and One Way Anova analysis were used. As a result of the research; Participants were found to have significantly higher levels of cognitive flexibility than physiotherapists of special education teachers and psychologists. Psychological resilience levels of special education teachers and psychologists were found to be significantly higher than physiotherapists. Finally were found significant that there is positive and low level relation between cognitive flexibility scale scores and psychological resilience scale scores of special education workers.