Professional resilience and self-efficacy of Directors of the Prefecture of Achaia

This thesis aims to investigate the degree of professional resilience and self-efficacy of the Directors of the Directorate of Secondary Education of Achaia. In addition, it attempts to investigate the possible correlation between these fields, but also the effect of demographic characteristics on the professional resilience and self-efficacy of school leaders.For the research purposes, the mixed method was used -with the combination of quantitative and qualitative research- and the methodological triangulation of the results followed, resulting in a high level of professional resilience, a satisfactory sense of self-efficacy and a statistically significant correlation between them. The impact of demographic characteristics appears small in the issues under investigation, while the sense of self-efficacy of of school heads in schools with a small student population (≤100) to be significantly smaller than that of school heads in schools with a larger number of students, a finding confirmed by the qualitative analysis of the data.