Abstract

• The main aim of the study is to investigate the resilience, forgiveness and life satisfaction of prospective teachers from selected Education Colleges. Descriptive survey method was applied for this study. In this study, the samples were 782 prospective teachers (Male=377, Female=405) from four Education Colleges. Resilience Scale for adolescent (RSA) (Kaner & Bayrakli, 2010a, 2010b) was used to assess resilience of prospective teachers (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.839). Rye Forgiveness Scale (Rye, 1998) was used to assess forgiveness of prospective teachers (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.667). Multidimensional Students’ life Satisfaction Scale (Huebner, 2001) was used to assess the life satisfaction of prospective teachers (Cronbach’s Alpha =0.866). According to result, there was no significant difference in resilience by gender but significant difference by grade and colleges. It may be said that first year have more resilience than second year and EC 4 have more resilience than EC 1. In forgiveness, there was no significant difference by gender and college but significant difference by grade. There may be first year have more forgiveness than second year. There were significant differences in life satisfaction by grade and college but not by gender. There may be first year have more life satisfaction than second year and EC 4 have more life satisfaction than other Colleges. There were positive correlations between resilience and forgiveness (r = 0.345, p=.000), between resilience and life satisfaction (r=0.733, p=.000) and forgiveness and life satisfaction (r=0.288, p=.000).