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Religious and spiritual beliefs, self‐esteem, anxiety, and depression among nursing students
Author(s) -
Papazisis Georgios,
Nicolaou Panagiotis,
Tsiga Evangelia,
Christoforou Theodora,
SapountziKrepia Despina
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1442-2018
pISSN - 1441-0745
DOI - 10.1111/nhs.12093
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , clinical psychology , beck depression inventory , personality , self esteem , trait , depression (economics) , spirituality , religious belief , scale (ratio) , trait anxiety , psychiatry , social psychology , medicine , alternative medicine , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics
Research of the role of religious belief and/or spirituality has been conducted on a wide range of health‐related topics, across many disciplines, and in many countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between religious beliefs, self‐esteem, anxiety, and depression in nursing students in C yprus. One hundred and twenty‐three nursing students were asked to complete a survey consisting of four self‐report questionnaires ( B eck D epression I nventory, S tate– T rait A nxiety I nventory, The R oyal F ree I nterview for R eligious and S piritual B eliefs, and R osenberg S elf‐esteem S cale). The lowest levels of depression were observed in the third and fourth study year. Normal self‐esteem levels were found in the majority of the students (71.3%) and most of them perceived current stress at mild levels. No significant differences on the basis of sex were observed. The vast majority (98.2%) of the students stated a strong religious and/or a spiritual belief that was strongly positively correlated with increased self‐esteem and negatively correlated with depression, current stress, and stress as personality trait.