The effect of verbal violence, clinical practice stress, and coping with stress on nursing students’ major satisfaction during clinical practice

Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the effect of verbal violence, clinical practice stress, and coping with stress on the major satisfaction in nursing students during clinical practice.Methods: A cross-sectional study was used. A survey was conducted from May 3 to May 10, 2022, on 200 nursing students who were in their junior and seneior years at two universities in Gyeongsangbuk-do. Descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffé’s test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and hierarchical regression analysis were employed to analyze the data.Results: Major satisfaction was found to be significantly negatively correlated with verbal violence (r=-.30, <i>p</i><.001) and clinical practice stress (r=-.15, <i>p</i>=.032) and to be positively correlated with coping with stress (r=.24, <i>p</i><.001). Their satisfaction with clinical practice (<i>β</i>=.29, <i>p</i>=.037), verbal violence (<i>β</i>=-.23, <i>p</i><.001), coping with stress (<i>β</i>=.16, <i>p</i>=.015), religion (<i>β</i>=.14, <i>p</i>=.041), and clinical practice stress (<i>β</i>=-.13, <i>p</i>=.048) explained 19.3% of the variance in nursing students’ major satisfaction during clinical practice.Conclusion: A verbal violence and coping with stress program for nursing students should be developed to increase nursing students’ major satisfaction during clinical practice.