Abstract

• This study was conducted to study adversity quotient and academic stress of students from Universities of Education. This study is to find out the differences of adversity quotient and academic stress of students in terms of gender, subject stream, grade and university. The participants in this study were 917 (male = 364, female = 553) fourth year and fifth year students from Universities of Education. Adversity Respond Profile (ARP) developed by Stoltz (1997) and Academic Stress Inventory (ASI) developed by Lin and Chen (2009) were used. The reliability coefficients of Adversity Response Profile (ARP) and Academic Stress Inventory (ASI) questionnaire were .674 and .987. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, independent samples t test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation and Simple Linear Regression. Adversity quotient and academic stress of students from Universities of Education were satisfactory. The t test results stated that there were no significant differences in adversity quotient by gender and grade. ANOVA results also showed that there were no significant differences in adversity quotient by subject stream. And then, the results of t test confirmed that adversity quotient of university-2 students had higher than that of university-1 students. Continually, the results revealed that male students had higher academic stress than female students. The results showed that academic stress of subject stream-3 students was the highest among three groups of subject stream. Additionally, the results showed that there was no significant difference in academic stress by grade. The results confirmed that university-1 students had higher academic stress than university-2 students. And then, the results revealed that there was a negatively significant relationship (r=-.462) between adversity quotient and academic stress. It could be interpreted that the higher adversity quotient, the lower academic stress. Finally, the results revealed that adversity quotient can predict 21% of academic stress.