摘要：The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the coping strategies used by the class teachers and the self-efficacy perceptions. The research has been conducted in relational survey method. The universe of the research is composed of class teachers working in the primary schools in the provincial centers of Samsun in the academic year of 2018- 2019. In the study, has been used ”the scale of determining strategies used by pre-school teachers against undesired behaviors in classroom management, developed by Keleş (2015) and teacher self-efficacy scale prepared by Çapa, Çakıroğlu and Sarıkaya (2005). The research was carried out with the participation of 528 classroom teachers. The data collection tool consists of three parts. For statistical analysis, ”SPSS 24.0 for Windows“ was used. Descriptive statistics, mann whitney u test, kruskal wallis h test and correlation analysis has been used to analyze the data. As a result of the study, it is found that classroom teachers are generally “indecisive” in coping with unwanted behaviors, and self-efficacy belief levels11 were “quite sufficient” for the whole scale. In addition, it was determined that teachers with high self-efficacy mostly used reality therapy / control model in coping with undesirable behaviors, and at least the safest discipline model and social discipline model were used. Therefore, there is a significant relationship between classroom teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and methods used to deal with unwanted behaviors. Methods used by teachers to deal with unwanted behaviors; There were significant differences between marital status, educational status, professional seniority and service duration in the institution. On the other hand, it was concluded that there was no significant difference according to gender variable. While teachers' self-efficacy beliefs differed significantly according to gender, professional seniority; It was concluded that there was no significant difference between marital status, educational status and service duration variables in the institution.
