Abstract
The purpose of this study was:
(1) to develop a revised edition of the Pagana's Clinical Stress Questionnaire (CSQ), which can be applied to Japanese nursing students, and (2) to elucidate that the students were simultaneously feeling the emotion of threatening and challenging for their clinicalpractice training.
This new inventory was designed to measure challenging, threatening and harmful emotions. The inventory consists of 17-items and every item has a 5-point rating scale.
The questionnaire was given to 82 senior nursing students on first day evening of their clinical practice training of adult nursing on the ward.
Analysis of these results revealed that, (1) Significant correlation was found between scores of every item and those of total items in all except one item. (2) The internal consistency was elucidated (α＝0.78). (3) Factor analysis confirmed three factors, and each factor agreed with the theoretical concept. (4) A significant positive correlation was found between "situational anxiety" in the State Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and "threatening" in the Revised CSQ (r＝0.76). (5) Mean scores of all students exceeded the middle valu (2.0) in three items in "threatening" and one item in "challenging".
There was no significant correlation between factors of "threatening" and those of "challenginig".
