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A major part of scientific community has steered to the study of teachers' psychological resilience over the years. In international literature, numerous studies have been identified the importance of studying and measuring stress, burnout, teachers' resilience, as well as risk and protection factors. The aim of this postgraduate thesis was to study the levels of psychological resilience between General (Primary-Secondary) and Special Education teachers. The research was quantitative and the research questions were the undersigned: 1) What are the resilience levels of general education and special education teachers? 2) Is there any statistically significant difference in the levels of resilience between general and special education teachers? 3) Is there any statistically significant difference in the levels of teachers resilience, in terms of gender, educational level and degree? 4) Is there any statistically significant difference in the levels of general and special education teachers resilience? The study involved 94 general and special education teachers, who completed the customized Resiliency Scale for Teacher Motivation (Kassis, Kourkoutas Görich, Eryigit-Madzwamuse, Meier, Graf, Hart, 2018). The results showed that general education teachers and special educators achieve high levels in most dimensions of resilience, with a slight differentiation of special educators. However, according to the 2nd research question, does not seem any statistically significant difference between the two groups of teachers. Regarding the 3rd research question, it appeared that the levels of teachers resilience not differ, in any of its dimensions by gender, for two groups. In terms of education level, primary school teachers outclass and showing a statistically significant difference in the dimension of getting social support from colleagues to maintain motivation, and no statistically significant differences in others. In comparison to degree, there is no statistically significant difference between the two groups. Finally, for the 4th research question, it seemed that special education teachers' differ statistically significant from general education in getting social support from colleagues to manage difficulties and in professional skills.
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