STRESS AND RELIGIOUS COPING: A RESEARCH ON THE EMPLOYEES (SAMPLE GORA, PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS)

Job stress has become a common and costly problem in the allovertheworld. One-fourth of employees view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives. In the past 20 years, many studies have looked at the relationship between Job and stress. So research on job stress has greatly expanded in recent years. But in spite of this attention, confusion remains about the causes, effects, and prevention of the job stress. The purpose of this study is to determine workers religious and spiritual beliefs and activities, so their religious coping activities, measured using Pargament’s three coping styles and a positive religious coping scale; the influence of religious coping on psychological and existential well-being. Alsowehave compared religious coping activitieswith religiousness andpsychologicalwell-being.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Stress, Job Stress, Coping, Religious Coping, Kosovo

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