The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Stress at Work Experienced by Journalists of Harian Metro 24 Jam

Abstract

This study aims to see the relationship between self-efficacy and stress work, where the subject of this research is the journalist Harian Metro 24 Hours in Medan. The hypothesis proposed in this study reads: there is a negative relationship between self-efficacy and job stress on journalists. The higher the self efficacy of journalists, the lower the stress work. On the other hand, the lower the self-efficacy, the work stress will be higher. In an effort to prove this hypothesis, we use Product Moment correlation data analysis method, which is based on processing data, the following results were obtained: 1). There is a negative relationship that very significant relationship between self-efficacy and work stress. This result is proven with correlation coefficient rxy = -0.503 ; P < 0.010. The higher self-efficacy, the lower the work stress, and conversely the lower self efficacy, the higher the work stress, thus the hypothesis that has been submitted in this study, declared accepted, 2). Self efficacy gives contribution to work stress by 25.3%. This means that still there are 74.7% of the influence of other factors on work stress, among others: internal which includes personality characteristics (extrovert-introvert, locus of control, and so on), intellectual, age and gender. While the factor external which includes heavy and urgent demands on tasks, relationships with the social environment and rapidly changing life or slow. It is known that the self-efficacy of the 24 Hour Metro journalists. The field is in the category of tending to be high, because the empirical mean (100,500)greater than the hypothetical mean (95), but the difference between the two means is not until it exceeds the number 1 SD (13,231). Then in terms of work stress, the journalists are stated to have work stress which also tends to be high, because the difference between the empirical mean (160.619) and the hypothetical mean (157.5) is much2 to 3 points adrift.