Examining the Relationship between Teachers and Students' Resilience at the Higher Education Level

Abstract

Resilience is the capability to show a positive attitude towards others, face many difficulties, and continue performing effectively against challenges due to stress and adversity. In education, resilience is very necessary for both students and teachers because it promotes academic success, emotional well-being, and a positive learning environment. The objectives of the study were: examine the relationship between students and teacher’s resilience at higher education level, effects of teacher’s resiliency on teaching effectiveness (job satisfaction and job stress), effects of student’s resilience on student’s performance, identify the strategies that promotes the teachers and student’s resilience. The target population was all the public and private universities of the City Lahore. The accessible population was the two public and two private universities, which were selected through stratified sampling techniques. Through stratified sampling techniques, 100 teachers and 100 students were selected from the same universities. Two types of research scales were used for the study. After the pilot-test procedure, the data were analyzed through statistical measures. The results interpreted that the teacher’s resilience has positive and strong effects on teachers’ job satisfaction and teachers' job stress. It also reveals that students’ resilience is strongly and positively correlated with teachers’ resilience, and it has strong effects on students’ performance.