This study is aimed at identifying the correlation between the type of temperament and the levels of personal and situational stress resistance in students, as well as identifying the correlation between stress resistance and extroversion/introversion and neuroticism as components of temperament. The study was conducted through a survey, three psychodiagnostic methods were used: the test questionnaire Stress Resistance Test, the questionnaire Perceived Stress Scale PSS-10 and the Eysenck Personality Inventory EPI. For the purposes of statistical data processing the following methods were used: contingency tables chi-square and Cramer's V correlation coefficient, the method of proportion analysis with the calculation of the proportion coefficient P and the calculation of the Pearson correlation coefficient. The study involved 63 respondents; all of them were undergraduate students of higher education institutions in Kazakhstan. The results of the study showed that the students in the sample generally had average stress resistance; most of the students were melancholic, extroverted, and had a high level of neuroticism. A moderate correlation was identified between the type of temperament and the levels of personal and situational stress resistance. Sanguine people demonstrated the highest personal and situational stress resistance. Cholerics demonstrated the lowest personal stress resistance, and cholerics and melancholics demonstrated the lowest situational stress resistance. No significant correlation was found between extroversion/introversion and stress resistance. A moderate negative relationship was found between the level of neuroticism and the levels of stress resistance.

The results of the study expand theoretical knowledge about the determinants and correlates of stress resistance. Conducting the study on a sample of students allows teachers and other university employees to use the results obtained in working with students.