Empowering Psychological Resilience: Evaluation of Training

10th International Scientific Conference Technics, Informatics and Education – TIE 2024, str. 507-514

АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Dragana Bjekić , Milevica Bojović , Mirjana Beara Benjak

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DOI: 10.46793/TIE24.507B

САЖЕТАК /ABSTRACT:

Psychological resilience is a positive psychological adaptation in times of challenges and crises. Many training programmes focus on psychological resilience. The training programme “Manual: Step by step from trainees to trainers and supporters in student peer support network” is developed within the project “Enhancing digital and psychological resilience through peer networking in the online environment in times of crisis”. The sub-programme A focused on psychological resilience, well-being, stress, and social support. The paper presents this sub-programme and discusses the programme structure. The sub-programme A was realized as hybrid and on-site and in four languages (English, Italian, Polish, and Serbian). The main goal is to evaluate the A sub-programme realization. The programme evaluative questionnaire was developed. The comparison of the sub-programme realization in English as a medium of instruction (80 trainees in the international pilot training realized at three universities, the sub-programme evaluated by 32 trainees) and Serbian as a medium of instruction (37 trainees in the national training realized in two groups, the sub-programme evaluated by 31 trainees) is presented. Trainees from both groups evaluated the A sub-programme with high grades; however, trainees trained in Serbian evaluated the A sub-programme higher (trainees in English: M=4.40; trainees in Serbian: M=4.82). Trainees rated the A sub-programme’s particular aspects as highly useful to develop skills for peer support and recommended it to other students/ participants.

КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS: 

psychological resilience; enhancing resilience training; English as a medium of instruction; programme evaluation; DigiPsyRes

ПРОЈЕКАТ / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

The development of this paper has multiple supports. The research was supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (Grant No. 451-03-68/2024-14/200132, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Čačak). Also, the work was done as a part of the ERASMUS+2021-1-RS01-KA220-HED-000032204 partnership project “Enhancing digital and psychological resilience through peer networking in the online environment in times of crises – DigiPsyRes”. This article reflects the views of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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