Open AccessPerceived self-esteem, resilience and stress of students entering a nursing degree
Author(s) -
Priscila Mendes,
Alana Taha de Araújo,
Paloma Bianca Veras Bastos,
Erli Neuhauss,
Luciana Zaranza Monteiro,
Suliane Beatriz Rauber
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta scientiarum. health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1807-8648
pISSN - 1679-9291
DOI - 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v43i1.55004
Subject(s) - self esteem , psychological resilience , psychology , clinical psychology , perceived stress scale , medicine , resilience (materials science) , stress (linguistics) , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , thermodynamics
This study aimed to evaluate perceived self-esteem, resilience and stress of students entering a nursing degree. Cross-sectional study with 122 students (104 women and 18 men) of the first semester of a private institution in Distrito Federal. Evaluations were performed in March 2019. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Resilience in Higher Education and Perceived Stress, as well as a socio-economic questionnaire were used. All procedures were carried out using the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and GraphPad Prism 6. The comparison of perceived stress between groups demonstrated that less stressed individuals were younger (19.1 ± 1.9 years old vs 22.5 ± 7.4; p = 0.030) and presented higher resilience scores (147.0 ± 16.3 vs 125.0 ± 22.5; p < 0.001). The comparison of self-esteem tertiles showed that individuals with better self-esteem were more resilient (146.0 ± 17.65 vs 133.85 ± 24.84; p = 0.037). Spearman's correlation demonstrated a negative relation between resilience score and perceived stress (r = -0.415 p = < 0.001). Students had already entered university presenting psychical deficits, such as increased stress and low self-esteem and resilience.