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(1) Background: The closure of schools and the transition to online teaching because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s restrictions have resulted in significant changes in the workplace. Consequently, several resilience strategies have been implemented, and chief among them focus on the topic of burnout and coping abilities; (2) Purpose: Thus, this study investigates the influence of self-esteem, dispositional hope, and mattering on teacher resilience, and how crisis self-efficacy and gender differences mediate and moderate the relationships among associated variables. (3) Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a cluster random sampling. A total of 248 secondary school teachers in Malaysia participated in this study. Questions were first transferred and formatted using a template of a commercial internet survey provider. Then, the university’s online learning platform was used both as a questionnaire distribution channel and a data collection method. Data analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling (SEM) with a partial least squares method; (4) Results: The findings of this study revealed that self-esteem, dispositional hope, and mattering significantly influence teacher resilience, and crisis self-efficacy mediates the impact of self-esteem and dispositional hope on teacher resilience. In some instances, the results also showed that gender has a moderating effect on teacher resilience during the pandemic; (5) Conclusions: This study used psychological factors to understand teacher resilience and incorporated crisis self-efficacy into teacher resilience research. It is one of the very few studies in resilience literature to investigate the moderating role of gender on teacher resilience.

This study assesses the effects of inception ecopsychology elements in an environmental education as to strengthen the attitudes towards the environment among teacher trainees based on the affective learning domain.  A mixed method design was used to evaluate the effects of the inception ecopsychology element in environmental education. Initial findings showed that there was a significant difference on attitudes towards environment between experimental and control groups. Qualitative findings also showed that the respondents from the experimental groups believed they were considered to have changed after participating in the class. Findings from this study suggested that the implementation of environmental education should incept ecopsychology elements. © 2016 The Author. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK.. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, Malaysia. Keywords: Ecopsychology, Environmental Education

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Sustainable Development Goals defined that quality education and youth employment are two inter-related indicators that reflect the economic growth. It is important to conduct early assessment of graduate employability to better equip them with necessary knowledge and skills to increase their chance of achieving more sustainable future in their career path. This study aims to develop and validate an instrument termed as the Graduate Employability Instrument to measure the employability attributes among the undergraduate students. This involved five stages of scale development. The technical analyses are done according to the accepted standards in psychometric testing comprising exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis and confirmatory factor analyses. Total 425 Malaysian undergraduate students were involved in the study. The findings supported the main proposed model with 33 items grouped in 7 constructs; work and career resilience, human and social capital, teamwork, conscientiousness, critical thinking, academic, and leadership. This study contributed in measuring self-perceived employability of undergraduate students, which reflected the dimensions of strengths in the higher education institution studied towards preparing youth to fit in the competitive working environment. This can be used for continuous programmer improvements and intervention plans to improve the quality of education and resolve youth unemployment issues.

Social problems among students are to be observed as getting serious. Due to this, one question related to social and disciplinary problems has been brought up – how far have students learn to internalise and practise good values in their lives. Hence, this article presents findings related to internalization of good values ​​in current scenario among secondary school students. This study used a descriptive survey research design. Data collected through the questionnaire survey involving secondary school students selected in Peninsular Malaysia and supported by semi-structure interview data. The results showed that the overall internalization of good values ​​were at moderately high level. This study found that only three dimensional values ​​that indicate a high level of internalization. The good values are the value of gratitude, patriotism and the value of respect. The 14 dimensional values ​​indicate a moderately high level of internalization. Among these values, the lower is the value of independent, community spirit and the value ​​of diligent. In conclusion, some implications of the study are discussed in this paper in order to develop student’s values.

Developing system thinking skills among secondary school students has been set as an educational goal for years. The emerging properties of a system have recently been influenced by the characteristics of each student. Thus, this study examines the Big Five personality traits as predictors of Malaysian school students‘ systems thinking. Quantitative data was obtained using a standardized questionnaire with established scales (the Goldberg’ International Personality Item Pool and the Systems Thinking Scale) from 196 upper secondary school students. The results indicate that personality traits affect secondary students‘ system thinking, and almost thirty percent of the variation in the Malaysian system thinking skill can be elucidated by its sub-domains. Although agreeableness has superior impacts on systems thinking, extraversion seems to have less importance on their systems thinking. The results also reveal the negative association between extraversion and neuroticism and systems thinking. We conclude that certain personality traits can improve systems thinking and promote students’ ability to solve complex problems. The implications of these findings for the enhancement of systems thinking among school students are discussed.

Burnout is a condition that can affect a person's work performance. Among the internal factors that contribute to burnout are emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, social intelligence, physical intelligence and resilience. This study explores the relationship among these internal factors toward the occurrence of burnout. A relationship model between variable of study was created based on the findings of the study. Instruments related to emotional, spiritual, social and physical intelligence and burnout have been distributed to 377 students of secondary school teachers throughout Selangor as a sample of chosen research using random-stratified sampling and cluster sampling. This study utilizes two approaches in analyzing data, which consist of descriptive statistics of IBM SPSS software statistics 22.0 and inferential statistics using advanced modeling analysis Structured equations (SEM) through the software Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) 22.0. The results of correlation analysis have shown that there is direct relationship for all intelligence factors against burn out. All variables have affected burnout except social intelligence. The findings of the study to demonstrate a model of emotional intelligence, social intelligence, physical intelligence, spiritual intelligence and resilience with burnout have reached the concurrence value. Teachers equip themselves with the intelligence and have resilience in carrying out its duties to increase the students ' achievement, thereby encouraging their excellence. The predictor of emotional, spiritual, physical intelligence and burnouts is an important indicator to certain stakeholder such as Ministry of Education Malaysia to improve vital elements to choose a teacher and courses that should be implemented to the teacher to prevent burnout from occurring.