Coping strategies of nursing students for dealing with university stress - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

Objective:

to identify the coping strategies used by nursing students in a university in southern Brazil, establishing the relationship between the sociodemographic and academic variables examined.

Method:

an exploratory, descriptive, quantitative study, carried out with 146 nursing students, through application of the Coping Strategies Inventory. For the data analysis, descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and regression analysis were used.

Results:

it was found that the coping strategy most used by nursing students is escape. A connection was also detected between the academic dissatisfaction variable and the use of negative coping strategies.

Conclusion:

it was noted that students satisfi ed with the course used positive coping strategies targeting the problem, whereas dissatisfi ed students used negative strategies focusing on the emotion.