Understanding Stress and Burnout Experiences Among Trainee Clinical Psychologists: Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy

The aim of the present study was to determine the role of self-efficacy as a mediator between academic stress and burnout in trainee clinical psychologists. Correlational research design was employed in this present study. The sample was taken from various mental health institutes of Karachi, Pakistan. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the research participants that was comprised of 110 trainee clinical psychologists with the age ranged between 20 to 40 years (X̄= 24.5, SD= 2.71). The Student Life Stress Inventory (Gadzella, 1991), Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (Demerouti et al., 2003), and General Self-efficacy Scale (Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 2014) were administered to measure the study variables. The data was scrutinized and analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, V-25.0). Self-efficacy has been found as a significant mediator in the relationship between academic stress and burnout in trainee clinical psychologists. The current study provided the insight of how self-efficacy can play a role as a mediator in the association of academic stress and burnout in trainee clinical psychologists.