The relationship between time management and self-efficacy with job stress of primary teachers in Bojnourd

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between time management and self-efficacy with job stress of primary school teachers in Bojnourd. This is a descriptive correlational study and the statistical population consists of all primary teachers in Bojnourd in the year 1994-95 with a number of 850 people and a sample of 265 people has been selected. In this study, three job stress questionnaires of the British Institute of Health and Safety, Scherer and Maddox General Self-Efficacy Scale and Karami Time Management Questionnaire (1998) have been used. Multiple regression test and Pearson correlation coefficient were used to deduce the hypotheses. The results showed that in the best predictive model for job stress, time management and self-efficacy are able to predict the criterion variable. Time management has the largest share in predicting job stress. Also, there is a negative and significant relationship between self-efficacy and job stress at a level less than 0.05. This means that self-efficacy is related to job stress and with increasing self-efficacy scores, elementary teachers' job stress decreases. Also, there is a negative and significant relationship between time management and job stress at a level less than 0.01. This means that time management is related to job stress and with increasing time management scores, elementary teachers' job stress decreases.