Author(s): Melahat AKGÃN KOSTAK Esra Nur KOCAASLAN Remziye SEMERCÄ° Ä°smail ÃETÄ°NTAÅ
This study aimed to determine the perceived stress and coping behaviours nursing students in summer school. This descriptive study was conducted by 348 students in *** University Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department during the 15-21 August 2017. Data were collected by PSS, PPSRS and CBI. Data was analysed by descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis and Spearman Correlation tests. The age of the students was 22.49±2.31, 50.3% were female, 77.2% academic success status wasmoderate. 97.1% of the families knew that their students took lessons in summer school. It was a negative very weak correlation between the age of students and the score of PPSRS (p<0.05). It was a significant difference between the students’ gender and the average score of PPSRS. It was a significant difference between academic success status and average scores of PPSRS and CBI. There was a statistically difference between the support status of the students in terms of summer school education with their families and the mean PPS total score (p = 0.027), PPSRS total score (p <0.001), and CBI problem solving subscale (p = 0.041). As the age of the students decrease, their physio-psycho-social responses increase and girl students showed more emotional responses toward stress. Students with low academic success showed more physio-psycho-social responses toward stress and they frequently applied optimistic strategy to cope with stress. Student whose parents didn’t know their children took summer courses perceived more stress and showed more physio-psycho-social responses toward stress. It was determined that the students who were not supported by their families about summer school education had higher perceived stress compared to the supported students, they showed more bio-psycho-social responses to stress and they used problem solving behaviour more as coping behaviours.
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