What Affects the Resilience of Novice Kindergarten Teachers? - An Empirical Study from 5379 Novice Kindergarten Teachers in China

Resilience is gaining attention as an important factor in helping novice teachers to adapt to their new environment and increase their willingness to stay in their jobs. This study surveyed 5,739 novice kindergarten teachers in China to construct a system of indicators influencing the resilience of novice teachers and to quantify the relative contribution of each indicator. The results indicate that the major protective factors for their resilience were organisational support and family support in social support and the main risk factor was the difficulty and challenge of the job in occupational stress. Shapley decomposition shows that these three determinants jointly contribute to 86.75% of total R². This study calls for attention to be paid to the resilience of novice kindergarten teachers and makes a number of recommendations to enhance their resilience and improve their survival environment.