Abstract
We conducted a cohort study of 125 students in two nursing colleges to clarify the relationship between stressors and coping. The students of the first year felt that the strongest level of stress was caused by human relationships; the students of the second year felt that their studies caused the most stress, and hospital training and practice caused the highest level of stress for third-year students; these high levels of stress were considered severe and the cause of fatigue. The first-year students most frequently adopted emotion-focused coping to relieve their stress; however, this did not produce any effective results. Problem-focused coping which entails being cognizant of the stressors was significantly more effective than problem-focused coping. Problem-focused coping was adopted most frequently by the third-year students, but brought successful results in the students of all three years.
