The Relationship between COVID19 Stress, Stress Coping and College Adaptation among Nursing Students

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of COVID19 stress and stress coping on college adaptation in nursing students. Methods The participants were 251 nursing college students in one university located in Gyeongbuk Province. Data were collected by them using a self-questionnaire from November 28th to December 31th of 2021. Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA, Scheffė test, Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple linear regression analysis with SPSS/WIN 20.0 program. Results The mean score for COVID19 stress was 3.40, stress coping value was 3.23 and college adaptation was 3.25. According to general characteristics, Significant differences were found in COVID19 stress in gender, grade, and major satisfaction, stress coping and college adaptation in gender and major satisfaction. COVID19 stress, stress coping, college adaptation had significant correlations. Factors influencing college adaptation were ‘difficulty in social distancing’ among COVID19 stress and ‘problem-focused coping’, ‘social support’ among stress coping, which explained about 44.4% of total variance. Conclusions These results indicate that it may be helpful to reduce the ‘difficulty in social distancing’ among COVID19 stress and utilize active stress coping to increase college adaptation in the COVID19 situation. This suggests that the development of various types of education and intervention programs utilizing social support systems is necessary for successful college adaptation.