Understanding Teacher Resilience: Perception of Novice and Experienced English Teachers on Prominent Components

Sadeghzadeh, Maryam; Karimi, Fatemeh; Rezvani, Ehsan

doi:10.22080/iselt.2026.30081.1129

Understanding Teacher Resilience: Perception of Novice and Experienced English Teachers on Prominent Components

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Department of English, Isf. C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

10.22080/iselt.2026.30081.1129

Abstract

Teacher resilience has become an important international concern in recent years, especially amid the rapid growth in research on positive psychology. Yet, despite the growing body of international research on teacher resilience within the framework of positive psychology, empirical studies that systematically examine the specific components of resilience across different career stages, particularly within non-Western and EFL contexts such as Iran, remain limited. Adopting a descriptive-survey design, the present study aimed to examine the perceptions of novice and experienced Iranian English teachers regarding the prominent components of resilience and the possible differences between the two groups. For this purpose, 400 Iranian English teachers, both novice and experienced, were selected by convenience sampling from language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, and the data were collected using the English Language Teacher Resilience Instrument (ELTRI) and analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and an independent-samples t-test. The findings revealed that internal motivation and social skills were the most prominent resilience components for novice and experienced English teachers. Furthermore, comparing the two groups revealed that experienced teachers obtained higher scores in social skills and internal motivation components of resilience. The implications of the findings and the suggestions for further research are discussed in this paper.

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