Resilience Scale Among Primary School Teachers: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)

Abstract

The resilience scale is an important measurement tool in assessing the ability of teachers to face a variety of pressures and challenges in the teaching profession. The measurement of this scale can help in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of teachers as well as being able to plan the right intervention to improve the quality of teaching and subsequently be able to preserve the well-being of teachers. This study aims to validate the resilience instrument from the Winwood Workplace Resilience Scale instrument (2013). A total of 100 primary school teachers from the state of Perak were involved in this study. This study uses Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and is analyzed using SPSS software. EFA results show that there is strong internal reliability between the constructs α= 0.926. The EFA results also show that the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) Value (0.863 > 0.6) confirms that there is sufficient correlation between the item constructs, supported by a significant Bartlett's Test (Chi-Square 920.135, p < 0.05). Two factors can collectively explain 61.595 % of the total variance. The instrument has also been rotated into two components with Eigenvalues greater than 1. Of the 20 items in the instrument, 7 items (2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17) had to be dropped because they show a weighting factor that is less than 0.6. In conclusion, the EFA findings show that the items in this instrument can measure the resilience construct among teachers in Malaysian primary schools.