Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Tahir Mahbobi

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Buchan, Iran.

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between mindfulness and positive thinking with job stress and entrepreneurial self-efficacy among elementary school teachers in Bukan city. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population is all elementary school teachers in Bukan city, which is approximately 380 people. The sampling method is simple random method. The sample size was 191 according to the Cochran formula, and after distributing the questionnaire, 185 completed questionnaires were collected. In order to collect data, the mindfulness questionnaires of Bauer et al. (2006), positive thinking of Ingram and Wisnicki (1998), job stress of Philip L. Rice (1992), and entrepreneurial self-efficacy of De Noble et al. (1999) were used, and the validity and reliability of the questionnaires were examined and confirmed. To analyze the data and examine the research hypotheses, descriptive statistics methods such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics methods such as population normality and correlation coefficient and univariate and multivariate regression analysis were used, and all these calculations were performed using SPSS software. The results obtained from this study show that there is a significant relationship between mindfulness and positive thinking with job stress and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. In terms of mindfulness and positive thinking, there is a positive relationship with entrepreneurial self-efficacy and a negative relationship with job stress. So we conclude that mindfulness and positive thinking increase entrepreneurial self-efficacy and reduce employee job stress.

Keywords

• Mindfulness
• positive thinking
• job stress
• entrepreneurial self-efficacy

Main Subjects

• social Psychology