Effectiveness of Group Training of Stress Inoculation in Reducing Perceived Stress

摘要

One of the ways to inhibit stress is using stress inoculation. The method of the study is a quasi- experiment and the statistical population include all students of Islamic Azad University. Using the available methods, 30 people were chosen and were randomly placed into two groups of control and experiment. The sample of this study included the experimental group that received training of stress inoculation during 8 sessions with duration of 90 minutes weekly. Cohen's perceived stress scale was conducted in pre-test and post-test in both groups. Covariance analysis was used. Our results indicated that stress inoculation decreases significance in experiment group. Thus it can be concluded that stress inoculation training can be effective in reducing perceived stress.