2001 Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 77-82
Nursing students experience many stressful changes in circumstances due to various reasons such as self-supporting and nursing practice at hospital required after entrance to the university and all through the 4 years afterwards. The purpose of this study is to examine the degree of the psychological stress of the nursing students who experience during the 4 years, in relation to stressors, stress response and influencing factors to stress. Using the stress self-rating scale for nursing university students, the degree of the stress in relation to other factors was analyzed on the bases of the data obtained from 103 students of K nursing university. The results suggested that the degree of stress was closely correlated to specific annual events such as the national examination of nursing which are most stressful for the students in the fourth grade. There was no difference in the scales of coping, sense of humor and social supporting among four groups based on the stress self-rating scale nor among the 4 grades. As the scales both of the stress self-rating and the stress response, the sense of self-controlling showed the high score in the fourth grade, indicating that the nursing students got accustomed to the way to analyze their situations and to cope with them properly through the experiences during the past 4 years.
