Development of Occupational Resilience Beliefs Scale for Teacher Candidates

The aim of this research is to develop a valid and reliable measurement scale to measure the occupational resiliencies beliefs of teacher candidates. Occupational Resilience Scale (ORS) consists of 26 items and single factor. Participants of the study were a total of 272 university students, 168 (%61.8) female and 104 (%32.8) male. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used for testing construct validity for the scale. It was found in construct validity studies that the scale consists of single factor. It also showed that the model had high fit indices. Internal consistency coefficient was assessed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficients. The resulting coefficient was .93. In test re-test reliability study, Occupational Resilience Scale for Teacher Candidates was applied to 78 students of faculty of education three weeks apart. The Pearson correlation co-efficient between the scores obtained from the two applications was counted as .76. These values obtained as a result of the analysis applied on the data show that the occupational resilience beliefs scale developed for pre-service teachers is a valid and reliable scale.