The Evaluation of Styles of Coping with Stress of the Participants Who take the Safety Course

Stress management is very important in individual and corporate communication and success. At the present day, when fast-living conditions force the physical and mental limits of individuals, it is seen that the negative consequences of stress also increases. In this study, based on the importance and necessity of knowing stress management in professional relations, the ways of the security officers to cope with stress during the courses in which they receive training for a particular period have been examined, and it has been aimed to evaluate the effect of the training and education that have been implemented on this issue. In the study, the Scale of Stress Coping Ways (SSCW) developed by Folkman and Lazarus (1988) and shortened and adapted to Turkish by Şahin and Durak (1995) was applied to 260 participants in total receiving training in four different private security course with an average of 8 hours of programs a day for 15 days with the same content in Ankara. In the study which is in the descriptive quality, interviews were also made aimed at understanding the ways of the participants to cope with stress during the course activities. All in all, it has been determined that the learning lives arranged during the courses strengthened the participants’ self-confident approaches and their ways of coping with stress. In different professional groups, new studies can be made giving importance to arranging stress management trainings in enhancing motivation and success can be planned