The Relationship between a Student's Cognition of Nursing Practice and Resilience，and Self-Esteem

Abstract

　This article was analyzed based on longitudinal data of 66 nursing students which were gathered in two time points, before and after nursing practice, through questionaire about resilience and self-esteem. The purpose was to examine 1)change of resilience and self-esteem in two time points, 2)the relationship between scores of these two variables, 3)the relationship between these two variables and cognition of nursing practice which was asked after nursing practice.

　The results were as follows ; 1)There were no significant change in self-esteem, and regarding pursuit for novelty, orientation to meta-cognition, and orientation to relatedness which are subordinate scales of resilience, scores increased, 2)Some subordinate scales of resilience showed correlation with self-esteem, and some did not, 3)-1 Self-esteem showed higher correlation with cognition of nursing practice than resilience, and negative cognition showed higher correlation with self-esteem, but positive cognition showed higher correlation with resilience, 3)-2 Correlation with cognition of nursing practice and two variables after nursing practice were higher than before, 3)-3 Analysis where we divided four combination groups of positive and negative cognition of nursing practice and high and low scores, showed scores of self-esteem were high in adaptation group（high in positive and low in negative）and scores of resilience were high not only in adaptation group but also in learning group（low in both positive and negative）where one considered nursing practice as hard but learning much.