Self-Talk as a Medium for Coping Stress for Female Employee: A Systematic Literature Review

An employee is required to provide high performance at work, especially for women who work at a certain level that making them have to be alert and give their best performance. A plenty of job demands make female employees very easily to expose to work stress. Therefore, a stress coping is needed to minimize the effects of stress on female employees. One of them is self-talk, which is an easy way that female employees can do to relax and restore mood. Self-talk is one kind of coping stress that is believed to be the easiest way for employees to do. This study will examine how effective self-talk as coping stress on female employees in terms of several published journal sources. PRISMA is used as a research method guideline. The databases used in the search for articles were Springer, Scient Direct, Scopus, and Google Scholar using the search keywords "self-talk" AND "coping stress" AND "work stress" AND "employees". Screening was carried out by applying inclusion and exclusion criteria.