J Korean Acad Nurs Adm.  2011 Sep;17(3):267-276.

Influence of Ego-resilience and Stress Coping Styles on College Adaptation in Nursing Students

• Park JA
• Lee EK

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of ego-resilience and stress coping styles on college adaptation in nursing students. METHOD: The sample for this study consisted of 1st and 2nd year students from 3 colleges of nursing, one each, in Jeolla, Chungcheong, and Gyeongsang Provinces. The data were collected from November 5 to 22, 2010. The data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation and multiple regression with SPSS 18.0.
RESULTS
A positive correlation was found for college adaptation with stress coping styles and ego-resilience. The strongest predictor of college adaptation was an optimistic attitude. In addition optimistic attitude, satisfaction with nursing as a major, confidence, academic scores, age, emotional control, and gender accounted for 63.3% of variance in college adaptation.
CONCLUSIONS
The results of this study suggest that development of stress coping and ego-resilience in nursing students is important to college adaptation. Further research in improving ego-resilience and stress coping is warranted.

Keyword

Nursing student; Resilience; Stress; Adaptation

MeSH Terms

Humans
Students, Nursing

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