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Having the knowledge that the educators’ psychological resilience promptly affects their stay in the profession, the present study aims to investigate the percentages of psychological resilience present in active educational population. Realizing a survey that was conducted through questionnaires among 149 active educators (27 men and 122 women) was given the opportunity to enlighten the psychological resilience they feel they have in combination with the satisfaction they obtain from life. The measurement of the above variables took place through the digitalized distribution of two questionnaires, the “Scale Satisfaction from life” and the “Scale Resilience Connor- Davidson”. From the survey results it became transparent that the educators of Primary Education in Greece emerge high percentages of psychological resilience and high percentages of satisfaction from life. Through the survey it became clear that there is no statistical important correlation between demographic data of the sample and psychological resilience. It became also clear that there is a correlation between psychological resilience and the satisfaction from life, in which higher percentages of satisfaction from life results in higher percentages of psychological resilience. Finally, from the survey results emerged higher percentage of satisfaction from work among permanent educators in correlation with deputy educators