Impact of training general self-efficacy and religious beliefs on stress coping strategies of employed women at governmental departments- Mashhad, district No.3

Recently, more attention has been paid to impact of religious beliefs on mental health in psychological discourse. Also, perceived self-efficacy is a main process that impacts upon one’s effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to determine effectiveness of training general self-efficacy and religious beliefs on stress coping strategies in statistical population of employed women at governmental departments –Mashhad, district No.3. The method of this semi- experimental study was pre-test and post-test with focus group. The sample consists of 60 subjects in two controls and one focus group that in each group 20 subjects were accessible by sampling. Control group 1 received self-efficacy variable (through eight sessions of 1.5 hours) and control group 2 received religious beliefs variable (through eleven sessions of 1.5 hours) and were assessed before and after the course using CISS standard questionnaire on stress coping. In descriptive analysis of frequency indices, main tendency, dispersion, and in inferential analysis Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Levin test and covariance analysis were used. Findings indicate that employed women in governmental departmentsMashhad, district No.3: 1 . General self - efficacy training is effective on improvement of problem – orie nted stress coping strategies and lowering emotion-oriented and avoidance-oriented stress coping strategies. 2 . Religious beliefs training is effective on improvement of problem - oriented coping strategies and lowering avoidance-oriented stress coping strategies, but it has no effect on emotion-oriented stress coping strategies.