The relationship of spiritual well-being and involvement with depression and perceived stress in Korean nursing students.

Autor: Lee Y; School of School of Nursing, Kimcheon College. yeelulee@naver.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Global journal of health science [Glob J Health Sci] 2014 Apr 15; Vol. 6 (4), pp. 169-76. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Apr 15.
DOI: 10.5539/gjhs.v6n4p169
Abstrakt: Unlabelled: This study was conducted to identify the relationship among spiritual well-being, depression and perceived stress. Participants were 518 nursing students located in K province, Korea.
Design: Exploratory design was used for this study. Data were collected and analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients. The results were as follows; 1) Participants' mean scores were Spiritual Well-Being 76.03 (15.74), Religious Well-Being 32.8 (15.74), Existential Well-Being 43.23 (8.12), depression 9.10 (7.06), and level of stress 15.47 (5.49). 2) Spiritual Well-Being, Existential Well-Being, and Religious Well-Being were significantly different with the number of attendance to religious ceremony, the degree of subjective satisfaction regard to major and idea for future employment. 3) Negative correlations existed between Spiritual Well-Being and participants' perceived stress, and depression. 4) Particularly, Existential Well-Being has more inverse correlation with depression and stress than Religious Well-Being. This investigation highlighted Existential Well-Being as an important factor with lower levels of depression and perceived stress. According to these result, Spiritual Well-Being promotion program is needed to develop as a positive concept to adjust college life and spiritual well-being is required to take care of patients as potential power for nursing students in their future.
Databáze: MEDLINE