The extent to which kindergarten teachers in Zliten City schools have some positive indicators (psychological satisfaction, self-efficacy, and emotional effort) and its relationship to the level of mental health they have

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to examine the level of some concepts of positive psychology (psychological satisfaction, self-efficacy, emotional effort) with kindergarten teachers, and extract the relationship between the level of those concepts of positive psychology and level of mental health with 86 kindergarten teachers in Zliten city. The Psychological Satisfaction Scale and the Self-Effectiveness Scale had been used. Results show that kindergarten teachers have an acceptable level of psychological satisfaction, furthermore, high level of self-efficacy, and emotional effort, whilst, the level of mental health was within the average range, the results also showed positive related statistically significant between the concepts of positive psychology and mental health terms of Strength of the relationship were as follows: (emotional effort, psychological satisfaction, self-efficacy), these concepts have a moderate impact on the level of mental health, and this means that there are other factors that affect mental health in addition to these factors, which necessitate subsequent studies dealing with other variables. Furthermore, there are now statistically significant differences in the level of psychological satisfaction and the level of self-efficacy attributable to years of experience, while at the level of emotional effort there were differences due to the variable years of experience, as well as the existence of differences in the level of mental health attributable to years of experience.