Academic Stress and Self Esteem among Nursing Students Uma R.* Professor, Dept of Mental Health Nursing, St. Isabel’s College of Nursing, Chennai – 04 *Corresponding Author Email: uma8494@gmail.com
Online Published on 30 September, 2023. Abstract Background Nursing is one of the long and quite stressful courses of UG study programme. Stress and self-esteem are common issues that everyone has to cope with at some time in their lives and they could also affect other things going on in a persons’ life. Objectives The study aims to assess and compare the academic stress and self-esteem among 1st and 2nd year nursing students and associate with selected demographic variables. Methodology A descriptive cross sectional research design was adopted. A total of 67 nursing students were selected by using non probability purposive sampling technique in a selected nursing college. Through the self-administered method, standardized Academic stress scale and Rosenberg self-esteem scale were used to collect data from the selected samples and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results Among the 35 samples of the B.Sc(N) 1st year students 37% had moderate stress, 29% had high stress and 80% had moderate self esteem. Among the 32 samples of B.Sc(N) 2nd year students, 34% of the samples had moderate and high level of stress respectively and 94% had moderate self esteem. There was a significant association between academic stress with selected demographic variables such as age, year of study, birth order, type of family and family support. There was a significant association in the level of self esteem with selected demographic variables such as age, birth order and parental status. Conclusion Hence, the study findings recommends there need to be a some relaxation programme like yoga, meditation could be suggested regularly for nursing students to overcome their various stresses. Top Keywords Academic stress, Self esteem, UG Programme in Nursing, Nursing students. Top |