Stress among Nursing Students in one Nursing College in Bangkok
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The purposes of this descriptive research were to study the nursing students’ level of stress, to compare stress with learning at different year levels, personality and stress management styles. The sample consisted of 150 nursing students in one nursing college in Bangkok, from first to fourth year in academic year 2022, who were recruited by using a proportional stratified random sampling. The research instruments were questionnaires on stress and its related factors, personality and stress management styles. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, one-way ANOVA, and independent t-test. The findings were as follows:
1. The overall level of stress among nursing students accounts for the same percentage. 30.7% at a very high level and 30.7% at slightly higher than normal level of stress. The majority of the nursing students had a compromising personality type (30.67%) and a stress management style that focused on resolving emotions (51.33%).
2. The 1st - 4th year nursing students had different levels of stress which was not statistically significant at the level of .05.
3. Nursing students with different personalities had different levels of stress which was statistically significant at the level of .05. It was found that the extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness personality type had different levels of stress with statistical significance at the level of .05.
4. Nursing students with different stress management styles had different levels of stress which was not statistically significant at the level of .05.
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