SPIRITUALITY AS MEDIATOR OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONAL RESILIENCE OF TEACHERS

Lemar B. Payot, Edwin L. Nebria

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The primary aim of the study is to find out whether spirituality is a significant mediator of professional identity and personal resilience. Utilising a non-experimental, quantitative-descriptive correlation technique, data were obtained from 300 respondents who are public elementary and secondary teachers in JAS 1 and JAS 2, Province of Davao Occidental. The researcher utilized a stratified random sampling technique and the statistical tools mean, Pearson r, and Medgraph using the Sobel Z test. From the results of the study, it was found that the levels of professional identity, personal resilience, and spirituality are very high. Moreover, there are significant relationships between professional identity and personal resilience, professional identity and spirituality, and spirituality and personal resilience. Additionally, spirituality partially mediates the relationship between professional identity and personal resilience. This implies that spirituality has a significant role in both the professional identity and personal resilience of teachers.

 

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education, professional identity, personal resilience, spirituality, correlation, teachers, Philippines

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