School climate as the determinant of the relationship between the level of students’ resilience and school satisfaction

• Authors: Viola Tamášová , Silvia Barnová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Resilience is an individual’s capacity to recover, adapt, and keep mental balance and normal functioning when exposed to significant adversity. This competence plays an important role in one’s life because it increases the probability of achieving success in various spheres of life. Schools can foster students’ resilience by providing a positive school environment and a sufficient number of protective factors, but it is the subjective interpretation of conditions and experiences rather than the exposure to them that is significant. The main objective of this research was to study to what extent school satisfaction, i.e. subjective interpretation of the school climate, influenced the level of students’ resilience. Not all our findings are compatible with the results of other studies. Despite the limits of our research, its results can serve as a basis for further work as not much has been done in the field of resilience research in Slovakia.

Keywords

EN

school climate; resilience; coping; risk factors; protective factors

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Technologica Dubnicae
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-37

Dates

published

2011-07-01

online

2015-07-14

Contributors

author

Viola Tamášová

• Dubnica Technological Institute, Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia;

author

Silvia Barnová

• Dubnica Technological Institute, Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia;

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/atd-2015-0037