A Comparison Study of Chinese and Indonesia EFL Teachers� Well-Being

Abstract

As the largest group of foreign language teachers, various issues about EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers always attract the attention. While, their wellbeing is always ignored compared to their teaching skills. The current research aimed to validate the well-being (PERMA) research instrument that previously used in the study of Chinese EFL teachers by comparing the PERMA of Chinese EFL teachers to their counterparts in Indonesian. A survey was used to collect data about the factor structure of PERMA from 1,036 EFL teachers. These teachers include 534 EFL teachers in 14 Indonesian universities and 502 EFL teachers in 18
Chinese universities. CFA analysis with AMOS 22 was used to validate the PERMA instrument applied to Chinese and Indonesian EFL teachers. The similarities and differences of PERMA between Chinese and Indonesian EFL teachers are discussed. The results also recommends that valid instrument generated from CFA analysis provides an evidence in gauging EFL teachers well-being.