1Assistant professor, Dept. of Nursing Science, Daejeon Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
2Associate professor, Dept. of Nursing Science, Woosong College, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Younghee Jeong Associate professor, Department of Nursing Science, Woosong College, Korea Email: jeongyh@wsi.ac.kr
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
This study was conducted to investigate the differences of social support and stress coping in terms of gender and the effect of social support on stress coping among nursing students.
135 college students were the respondents of the study. The scales used were social support tool, modified by Moon, which was developed by Park and a Korean version of the Stress Coping Strategy (K-CSI) developed by Amirkhan. Independent t-test and hierarchical multiple regression were used to analyze the data with SPSS 23.
The results of this study showed no gender difference of social support and stress coping in nursing college students. The support of parents, friends, and professors who were social support explained 27.1% of stress coping. Parental support (t=2.033, p=.044) and friends’ support (t=2.493, p=.014) were found to have a positive effect on coping with stress. On the other hand, the support of the professor was positive but not statistically significant(t=1.72, p=.086), respectively. Assessing the relative impact of variables that can improve stress coping, the support of a friend(β=.257) showed the greatest influence on stress, followed by parent support(β=.183), and the support of the professor(β=.175) came third.
Therefore, to improve the coping ability of nursing college students, it is necessary to establish a social support system that is to maintain friend support and finding strategies to improve the support of the parents and professors as well.
Social support, stress, coping skill, nursing students, adaptation
