Perceived self-esteem, resilience and stress of students entering a nursing degree

Priscila Rodrigues Mendes,Suliane Beatriz Rauber,Paloma Bianca Veras Bastos,Alana Taha De Araújo,Erli Neuhauss,Luciana Zaranza Monteiro

doi:10.4025/actascihealthsci.v43i1.55004

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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihealthsci.v43i1.55004

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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.

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Students living with their family receive better social support and face less adaptation problems; on the other hand, students living with other students or alone, might have less social support and more responsibility, which are added to the academic commitments, factors which can influence on manifestations of stress (Bresolin et al, 2020)
Many times, the male Nursing student feels discriminated by society or even by academic members, when the term nurses is generalized, it is a professional mostly constituted of women, it is made up of men and women, there are differences and inequalities, it is about female and male nurses
It is based on the assumption that it is possible for men to develop psychological distress during the Nursing degree, due to the fact that they are the minority in the profession and in the course, to suffer from prejudice and discrimination

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With academic demands, there is encouragement to seek professional excellence, resulting in competitiveness increase, in which individuals increasingly crave high profile professional training and raise the probability of developing psychological and social problems, especially when there is a decrease in resilience and self-esteem (Maier & Mattos, 2016). Concerning Nursing, according to a study conducted by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (2015), the difficulty of finding a job was reported by 65.9% of professionals. This field is already experiencing open unemployment, with 10.1% of the interviewed professionals reporting unemployment in the last 12 months

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