Abstract

• The main aim of this study was to investigate hardiness and stress of staff members from University for the Development of the National Races of the Union (UDNR), Sagaing in 2021 2022 Academic Year. Survey research design and quantitative method were used in this study. The sample comprised 262 (Male = 80 and Female = 182) staff members from UDNR. The staff members’ hardiness was measured by using Hardiness Scale (HS) (Bartone, Ursano, Wright & Ingraham, 1989) slightly modified version of a scale originally developed by Kobasa et al. (1981, 1982, cited in Bartone et al., 1989) and their stress was measured by using Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) developed by Levenstein et al. (1993). In order to investigate the differences in hardiness and stress by gender, age and work experience, descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test, One-Way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson’s Product-Moment correlation were used. The results of independent samples t-test showed that there were no statistically significant differences in hardiness and stress of staff members by gender. Again, One-Way ANOVA results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in hardiness and stress of staff members by age and work experience. Pearson’s Product-Moment correlation revealed that staff members’ hardiness was negatively and very weakly correlated with stress (r = - 0.108).