APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

The Teacher Buoyancy Scale: Development and Psychometric Analysis of a New Scale

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · General

  • Kit Yi Wong
    The Education University of Hong Kong
  • Yee Fan Tang
    The Education University of Hong Kong
  • Dongyu Li
    The Education University of Hong Kong
  • May Hung Cheng
    The Education University of Hong Kong

Abstract

To understand teachers' capacity to bounce back from daily challenges in teaching (vs. acute adversity as studied in resilience), a new scale was developed. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed a 5-factor structure model with good fit indices. Further analysis revealed satisfactory to good reliability and satisfactory content and discriminant validity.

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