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Satı Demi R1, Feride Ercan1, Esra Erdoğan2
1Deparment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
Purpose:
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of self-efficacy and automatic thoughts on depression as mediated by anxiety in nursing students.
Methods:
This was a descriptive study to identify direct and indirect variables that affect depression levels of nursing students and to examine the relationship between independent variables. A total of 477 students from the Nursing Department participated in the study.
Findings:
As a result of the data analysis, the direct effect of self-efficacy and automatic thoughts on depression was found to be significant. The effect of automatic thoughts on depression as mediated by anxiety was significant.
Practical Implications:
It is thought that understanding the relationship between these variables will be useful in designing appropriate interventions for university students with depression, especially for nursing students.
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