The relationship between stress managenent training and employees self_efficacy

This also affects health (physical and mental) of individuals and impacts the type of relations between personnel and their job and organization. Aim of this research is to present the stress management training model and its relationship with self-efficacy of employees. Population of the research includes managers and employees of governmental organizations in 2020. In this research, purposeful sampling of 220 subjects as the sample size was used. For qualitative study, purposeful sampling method was used and the inclusion criteria included the specialists and experts with minimum 5 years of experience who have passed the stress management training course. Measurement instruments in this study were two standard and normalized questionnaires i.e. Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) developed by Endler & Parker(1990) and Generalized self-efficacy scale of Schwarzer, & Jerusalem(1992). After collecting the research data, the obtained information and results were analyzed using the descriptive data (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (regression analysis). The results show that the coping strategies for stressful conditions have different effect on self-efficacy of individuals so that there is a significant positive association between problem- focused coping strategy and self efficacy and effect of the problem- focused coping strategy on self-efficacy is incremental(p<0.05). In other words, the more emphasis on the problem- focused coping strategy, the more the self-efficacy of individuals. On the contrary, there is negative and decreasing association between emotion –focused coping and avoidance coping strategies and self-efficacy (p<0.05). In other words, the more emphasis on the emotion- focused and avoidance coping strategies, the less the self-efficacy of individuals.