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The relationship between educational stress, stress coping, self-esteem, social support, and health status among
N Yıldırım1, A Karaca1, S Cangur2
1Duzce University, School of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Duzce, Turkey.
Background:
Nursing education can be a stressful experience. To fully benefit from this experience and develop a positive professional identity, it is essential for nursing students to effectively cope with education-related stress.
Purpose:
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between nursing students' education-related stress and stress coping, self-esteem, social support, and health status.
Method:
This study utilized a cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational design. The sample consisted 517 nursing students from a bachelor program in Turkey during the 2014-2015 academic year. Participants provided data on sociodemographic characteristics as well as completing the following instruments: Nursing Education Stress Scale, Coping Behavior Inventory for Nursing Students, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and General Health Questionnaire. Relationships were examined using multivariate structural equation modeling.
Results:
Results indicated that nursing students' stress coping levels were affected by self-esteem and social support. Additionally, this interaction appears to affect general health status. Although the direct effect of stress on coping was non-significant, its overall effect was significant within the model.
Conclusion:
It is necessary to conduct further intervention studies examining the role of self-esteem and social support in facilitating nursing students' stress-related coping during their education.
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