Surveying Relationship between Factors of Challenge Stressors and Self-Efficacy at Islamic Azad University

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is “surveying relationship between factors of challenge stressors (Task Complexity, Time Pressure and Responsibility) and self-efficacy at Islamic Azad University branches in Ardabil province.” The population of this study are faculty members of Islamic Azad University branches in Ardabil province. We determined the amount of the sample size with the used of Cochran sampling method which the statistical sample is 203, which have been selected through the stratified random sampling method. To gathering of data, we used both challenge stressors and self-efficacy questionnaire according to Colquitt, Lepine, Wesson, (2010). Questionnaires reliability was estimated by calculating Cronbach’s Alpha that was 0.862 for challenge stressors and 0.746 for self-efficacy. In order to analyze the data resulted from collected questionnaires deductive and descriptive statistical methods are used, and to display some statistical data we used column diagram and in deductive level to test the hypothesis of the research we used Pearson correlation. Findings show that there is significant relationship between factor of challenge stressors (Task Complexity, Time Pressure and Responsibility) and self-efficacy at Ardabil branches of Islamic Azad University.