Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teacher psychological empowerment training program on Teacher Interaction, emotions and teachers academic optimism. Method: with a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest nonequivalent control-
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teacher psychological empowerment training program on Teacher Interaction, emotions and teachers academic optimism. Method: with a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest nonequivalent control-group design and followed by two months, 60 teachers in the experimental groups (30 subjects in experimental group) and (30 subjects in the control group), before and after training, responded to the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI), the Teacher Emotion Inventory (TEI), the Teacher Academic Optimism Scale (TAOA). The experimental group received 10 sessions of teachers’ resilience training package (2 hour a session). Results: The results of simple mixed ANOVA indicated that in the short and long term, the psycho-educational package was effective in increasing the psychological capital, teacher positive emotion, teachers’ academic optimism, adaptive dimensions of teacher-student interpersonal relation model and job related positive emotions and in decreasing the teacher negative emotions, job related negative emotions and non-adaptive dimensions of teacher-student interpersonal relation model. Conclusion: In sum, the results of this study according to the theoretical and empirical background of the teacher resilience study area show that in order to achieve the goal of teachers’ psychological capital need to emphasize their psychological psychological empowerment. Teacher psychological empowerment as a comprehensive conceptual framework includes the fields such as relations, motivation and emotions. Therefore, the effort to shape the concept of teacher resilience is made by increasing psychosocial resources. In these situations, on the one hand, teachers’ vulnerability to stressors is reduced, on the other hand, it leads to teacher thriving
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