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Effects of coping styles and stressful life events on depression and anxiety in Japanese nursing students: A longitudinal study
Author(s) -
Shikai Noriko,
Shono Masahiro,
Kitamura Toshinori
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-172x.2009.01745.x
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , anxiety , psychology , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , longitudinal study , medicine , psychiatry , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Nursing students face stressful situations during a clinical training. This two‐wave (between June and December 2004) study explored the relationship between the coping styles and stressful life events in terms of the occurrence of depression and anxiety among 97 Japanese female nursing students before (Time 1) and after (Time 2) a clinical training. In a structural equation modelling, Time 2 depression was significantly predicted by Time 1 depression and stressful life events whereas Time 2 anxiety was predicted by Time 1 anxiety, stressful life events and emotion‐oriented coping. Moreover, Time 1 depression predicted the impact of stressful life events and Time 1 anxiety predicted emotion‐oriented coping.