Abstract
Background:Nursing is a profession often characterized with high level of stress, physical and mental demands at work, which then can bring personal and social strains in nurses’ life. It is important to identify the factors, which can lead to nurses’ better subjective well-being.Objective:This study explores the relationship between subjective well-being (life satisfaction, happiness) and set of personal (self-esteem, affect regulation strategies) and social variables (family cohesion, social support).Method:411 participants were nursing part-time students, 79% females (M=25 years). They reported life satisfaction, happiness, strategies used by the Measure of Affect Regulation Styles classified into 6 scales: Behavioral, Cognitive, Situation-directed, Affect-directed, Disengagement and Avoidance, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Family cohesion scale and shortened and adapted version of the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List belonging subscale, their gender, age and socioeconomic status.Results:Well-being variables were best predicted positively by behavioral and affect-focused strategies, social support, family cohesion and self-esteem. Both sets of personal and social variables showed similar predictive power.Conclusion:The findings of our study showed the importance of personal as well as social variables in predicting well-being among nursing students. Providing strong social support and good family cohesion, as well as using effective regulation strategies and having higher self-esteem would help in improving their life satisfaction and happiness.
Highlights
The nursing profession is physically and emotionally demanding and often stressful occupation
Subjective well-being measures were significantly related to all measured variables showing weak to moderate relationships with exception of the Disengagement strategies
We presented the results of one of the model, with set of personal variables, i.e., Self-esteem, six Affect regulation strategies entered at the second step, and social variables, i.e., Family cohesion and Social support were entered at the third step and we focused our results on the final full model
Summary
The nursing profession is physically and emotionally demanding and often stressful occupation. The present study was designed to contribute to this field of research by examining the relationships between subjective well-being and set of personal and social variables on the sample of nursing part-time students. When examining workers in stressful occupations there is always a potential problem of selfselection, i.e. workers who could not endure hard work conditions left the job, leaving only those who could cope with the workplaces [3]. Nursing is a profession often characterized with high level of stress, physical and mental demands at work, which can bring personal and social strains in nurses’ life. It is important to identify the factors, which can lead to nurses’ better subjective wellbeing
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