Examining the Psychological Resilience and Self-Compassion Levels of Special Education Teacher Candidates

This study aims to investigate the relationships between the psychological resilience and self-compassion levels of special education teacher candidates.We also examined the predictive effects of self-compassion on psychological resilience.The study group of the research consists of 374 special education teacher candidates, 257 of whom were women (68.7%), and 117 of whom were men (31.3%), all of whom we reached through convenient sampling method.We collected the study data face to face through scale forms.The participants joined the study voluntarily, and it took them 25 minutes to respond to the scale items.The method of this research was designed with the correlational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods.Adult Resilience Measure, Self-Compassion Scale and Personal Information Form were used as data collection tools.In the analysis of the data, we conducted descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson Product Moments Correlation Coefficient analysis, and simple linear regression analysis.According to the current study findings and t-test results the psychological resilience of special education teacher candidates needs do not differ significantly according to their being a gender (t860=.860,p>.05).According to the results of the correlation analysis psychological resilience and self-compassion scores were positively at a low-level (r=.285, p<.01).According to the results of simple linear regression analysis, self-compassion scores significantly predicted psychological resilience scores (F1-372=32.825,R=.28, R 2 = .08,p<.01).