In this paper we point to mutual relations of experienced teacher’s stress ( in all areas – cognitive, emotional, physical
and social) with coping strategies (Proactive coping, Reflective coping, Strategic planning, Preventive coping,
Instrumental support seeking, Emotional support seeking, Avoidance coping) and with self-efficacy of teachers.
Based on professional resources, we assumed and discovered a considerable positive relation between proactive
coping and self-efficacy by 291 teachers from Slovak republic. In the context of teachers experiencing stress we
assumed and discovered that the more teachers prefer proactive coping with load, the smaller is their level of
experienced stress ( this is valid also for individual areas of experienced stress – cognitive, emotional, physical and
social).