Abstract

• The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the number of items and the dimensions of psychological hardiness scale for basic education teachers. Descriptive survey research method was applied and quantitative data analysis was executed in this study. For psychological hardiness scale, two instruments were used with 44 items. A total of 997 basic education teachers were randomly selected. Basic education teachers in Bago Region and Naypyitaw were examined. And then, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to investigate the number of items and the dimensions of the scale. It was also used to reduce data to a smaller set of summary variables and to postulate that there is a smaller set of unobserved (latent) variables or constructs that underlie the variables that actually were observed. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a multivariate statistical procedure that is used to test how well the measured variables represent the number of constructs. CFA was conducted to determine the existing structure of the scale and to test how the variables are related to underlying constructs. For psychological hardiness scale, three subscales (commitment, control and challenge) were used with 29-items