Resilience in Nursing Students: The Effect of Academic Stress and Social Support

Year 2019, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 69 - 76, 29.03.2019

Aysel Ozsaban Nuray Turan , Hatice Kaya

https://doi.org/10.33808/marusbed.546903

Cited By: 27

Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the levels of psychological resilience, academic stress and social support available to nursing

students and the relationship between these factors.

Methods: The population of the study, which had a descriptive and correlational research design, was made up of 1202 students, while the sample

consisted of 322 students selected using the sample size formula for a known population. Data were collected using a Structured Questionnaire, the

Psychological Resilience Scale for Adults, the Nursing Education Stress Scale and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support.

Results: 76.7% of students were female and 23.3% were male. A statistically significant correlation was found between scores for psychological

resilience and perceived social support (p<0.05). It was found that the individual characteristics of students affected their psychological resilience.

Levels of psychological resilience, academic stress, and social support among nursing students are at a moderate level.

Conclusion: The significance of resilience is clear, a better understanding is needed of what factors affect a student’s level of resilience and how this

resilience can best be improved.

Keywords

Resilience, academic stress, social support, nursing students

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