Objective: The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the existence of the concept of mobbing and the ways of dealing with stress among folk dancers.

Materials and Methods: The population of the research consists of folk dance referees working in 81 provinces in Turkey. Regarding the excessive number of referees in the population, some pilot provinces were selected from each geographical region. The sample group consisted of 190 public referees in 35 different cities from 7 regions. However, as 59 referees didn’t respond, 131 referees ,of whom 26 women and 105 men, were searched.

In order to obtain data about the participants' mobbing levels in the research, a scale was developed by Einarsen and Raknes (1997); mobbing scale revised by Matthiesen and Einarsen (2004) and adapted to Turkish by Öcel (2009); to get data about coping with stress the scale of coping with stress, developed by Folkman and Lazarus (1985) adapted to Turkish by Şahin and Durak (1995), was practiced.

In the analysis of the data obtained, a statistical package program on computer was used and significance level was taken as (p <0.05). In the research, frequency analysis to determine demographic features, T-test in independent groups to compare mobbing and stress coping levels according to binary variables, one-way analysis of variance (Anova) to compare mobbing and stress coping levels according to more than two variables; Tukey test to find out from which groups the difference originated; and Pearson correlation analysis were performed to examine the relationship between mobbing and stress coping styles.

Results: Participants' self-confident approach (r = .194, p <0.05) with mobbing was negatively low; and a positive high (r = .716, p <0.01) correlation between mobbing and self- insecure approach was found to be negatively low (r = .193, p <0.05).

Conclusion: As a result; participants’ self-confidence approaches are increasing as the level of mobbing of the participants are exposed to increases; while their self-confident and submissive desperate approaches are decreasing. Based on these results, we can infer that mobbing creates a problem of self-confidence on the participants and they desperately bow to what happened.