A Study On Resilience Of Preschool Teachers

Resilience refers to the ability one can face a threat and overcome the difficulties actively and effectively,and could adapt and develop well when an individual is faced with adversity or stress situation.The current researches on the resilience in foreign countries have been more abundant and deep,but the research in domestic is still in its infancy,and existing researches have focused on specific groups of disadvantaged children,poor college students and prisoners.This study takes preschool teachers as the research object,and this paper preliminarily studies the characteristics of preschool teachers' resilience through the investigation and study of 335 early childhood teachers in Southwest China.The study on preschool teachers' resilience is helpful for preschool teachers to understand themselves,relieve their work pressure,and promote their resilience.For preschool teachers,because of its special field,the main stress and pressure situation they faced is more from the impact of work in small and trivial and sustained many kindergarten life events especially the negative events.In this context,the resilience of preschool teachers will be defined as: in the kindergarten,preschool teachers can face difficulties,continue to actively and respond to the complex kindergarten life events effectively,and can adapt and develop well in teaching activities in kindergarten.This study follows the "theoretical construction--questionnaire survey--analysis of the status quo--suggestions and thinking".Firstly,based on the domestic and foreign relevant literature and questionnaire and combined with the collation of relevant information,this paper determines the structure of preschool teachers' resilience in theory.Then,according to the results of the theoretical conception,the author made a preliminary questionnaire of preschool teachers' psychological resilience to survey.Finally,through the questionnaire survey of 335 kindergarten teachers in Southwest China,this paper reveals the reality of preschool teachers' resilience.It is found that the resilience of preschool teachers is mainly composed of seven dimensions: self-acceptance,achievement motivation,self-efficacy,problem solving ability,emotion regulation,career involvement and social support.Generally speaking,the mental resilience of preschool teachers in Southwest China is in the middle and upper level,but the performance of each dimension is not balanced,and there is a big difference.And the main influencing factors: the quality of preschool teachers is not high and the kindergarten teaching activities is inefficient which influence problem-solving ability and self-efficacy to improve.Kindergarten teachers' work pressure and other factors may influence preschool teachers' achievement motivation level;The negative emotional experience influence preschool teachers' emotional regulation ability;Less support from parents and kindergarten reduce the social support that preschool teachers obtained;Poor benefits,low social status and other factors reduce the occupation loyalty of preschool teachers,influence teachers' occupation involvement and self acceptance,which will ultimately affect the resilience level of preschool teachers.Accordingly,this study argues that,in order to enhance the level of resilience of preschool teachers,protect the physical and mental health of preschool teachers,preschool teachers,kindergartens,parents and relevant departments should make efforts in three aspects.First of all,preschool teachers should improve the level of self-acceptance,enhance rich knowledge,improve professional skills,then improve the ability of solving problems,enhance self-efficacy.Secondly,preschool teachers should make good use of self renewal strategy and properly deal with the pressure to improve the level of achievement motivation.In addition,preschool teachers should also establish a correct attribution to feel the positive emotional experience.For kindergartens,on the one hand,it should ensure the efficiency of teaching and research activities to improve the quality of teaching and research,on the other hand,a caring mechanism should be formed,and a harmonious relationship should be established between colleagues.Moreover,parents should cooperate with teachers actively to create a good situation of home education.For the higher authorities,one is to expand the preschool teachers' professional learning channels,then enhance their professional level;Two is to carry out regular leisure relaxation activities to relax the physical and mental of preschool teachers;The most important thing is to enhance financial investment to preschool education,improve the teachers' salary level.These multi pronged approaches to enhance the resilience of preschool teachers.To sum up,this research has some innovation,but because of the limitations of the researcher's ability and conditions,there are still many problems,which need to be further improved in the future research.