Assessment of stress resilience and occupational personality characteristics of teachers

Abstract

This article intends to consider issues of assessing teachers' stress resilience and occupational personality characteristics. Research experiments on stress and problems of resistance to it have been extensively studied by foreign researchers, starting with G.Selye. Currently, interest in studying stress and resistance to it, including the stress resilience of teachers, is growing in national research studies. Teachers often face stress in their daily activities, and the ability to stand against it is one of the main factors of their effectiveness. In Kazakhstan, the SHL test - OPQ professional personality survey is used to determine the success of employees, including teachers, in working with various information. This survey is a product of SHL published in 1984. Developed by a team of psychologists, researched, and improved in accordance with modern requirements, this questionnaire is the most widely used personality questionnaire in the world. The results of the Occupational Personality Questionnaire for selecting applicants out of the teachers for the post of School Principal served as a source for the research. After the Questionnaire results were analyzed, it aimed to determine the function of psychological patterns of stress resilience. Teachers’ stress resilience depended on personal qualities specified in the "Self- management" section of the Questionnaire. In the article's conclusion paragraph, professional, personal, and competence-based differences of 500 teachers surveyed according to 19 psychological criteria were proven. The section "Self- management" of the Occupational Personality Questionnaire was the foundation to conclude that people’s emotions and the peculiarities of their emotions can be considered indicators of stress resilience in their daily lives and activities.