Open AccessRelationship between Perceived Stress and Coping Pattern amongst Nursing Students
Author(s) -
Systla Rukmini
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
shanlax international journal of arts, science and humanities (online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-0397
DOI - 10.34293/sijash.v8is1-feb.3967
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , psychology , clinical psychology , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , perceived stress scale , nursing , stress (linguistics) , medicine , statistics , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy
The present study triesto find the relationship between perceived stress and coping pattern among nursing students. The researcher usedthe tools of Shelden Cohen (1983) and the Cope Scale by Carver CS (1997), included Avoidant Coping and Approach Coping. Astratified random technique was used to select the sample from different hospitals/colleges, nursing students pursuing their studies in various institutions in Karnataka. There werea total of 162 volunteering participants. A self-administered questionnaire of Perceived Stress Scale and Brief COPE inventory was given to the participantsand the duration of the study was of one month. Statistical methods employed aremean, percentage, standard deviation, t-test, and Spearman’s Coefficient correlation, and were calculated using IBM SPSS. The results of Spearman’s Rho test show that there is a significant positive linear relationship between perceived stress and the following coping skills among the participants.