The Role of Nurses' Ways of Coping with Stress and their Psychological Weil-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Autor: Soylu, Fadime Kaya, Dastan, Nihal Bostanci, Uluman, Ozgu Tekin, Karabulak, Hatice
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Zdroj: International Journal of Caring Sciences; Sep-Dec2023, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p1630-1640, 11p
Abstrakt: Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has brought not only the risk of death from infection, but also unbearable psychological pressure. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the effects of nurses' ways of coping with stress and their psychological well-being in pandemic. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study. Its sample consisted of 148 nurses who were living in Turkey from June to July 2020. The data were collected using an information form, the Ways of Coping Questionnaire, and the Psychological Well-being Scale. Results: There was a statistically significant relationships were found between the nurses' age, social support and feeling successful about patient care, and the PWBS (p< .05). Positive relationships were found between the nurses' mean the PWBS score and their scores on the Ways of Coping Questionnaire subdimensions of the self-confident approach, the optimistic approach, and the seeking social support approach (p< .05), and a negative relationship was found between their subdimension scores for the helpless emotion-focused approach and their PWBS (p< .05). Conclusion: The findings support that coping strategies and psychological resources is significant in nurses' psychological well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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