Abstract

• The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between academic resilience and academic stress of secondary school students. Descriptive survey method and quantitative research design were used in this study. This study was conducted with a sample of 821 (366 boys and 455 girls) secondary school students studying in eight schools of four districts in Yangon Region. The required sample was selected by using random sampling technique. As the research instruments, Resilience and Youth Development Questionnaire developed by Thomas. L. Hanson & Jin-Ok Kim (2007) and Formal Academic Stress Inventory developed by Tabachnick, B.G. and Fidell, L.S. (2007) were applied in this study. As a result of descriptive statistics, most of the students in this study were resilient students and they also have average academic stress. The results of t-test revealed that there was a significant difference between students’ academic resilience by gender but the students’ academic stress was not. ANOVA results showed that there were significant differences in students’ academic resilience and academic stress according to age, districts and schools. Then, the academic stress of secondary school students had significant differences with regard to their parents’ education and no. of siblings. The results also showed that there was a significant relationship between academic resilience and academic stress of secondary school students.