The Correlation between Bullying, Academic Emotion and Teacher Support in Baccalaureate Nursing Education

Objective: To investigate and analyze the relationship between bullying, academic emotion, and teacher support in the nursing education of undergraduate nursing students. Methods: A convenient sampling method was adopted by conducting a questionnaire survey on undergraduate nursing students of a university from October 2022 to December 2022. Spearman’s correlation was used to analyze the relationship between bullying, academic emotions, and teacher support of nursing students, with a significance level of α = 0.05. Results: The total score for educational bullying was 12.51 ± 8.71, the total academic emotional score was 284.25 ± 34.69, and the total teacher support score was 80.76 ± 14.39. A negative correlation was found between nursing students’ bullying and teacher support, s = -0.20, P < 0.01, while a positive correlation was observed between academic emotion and teacher support, s = 0.21, P < 0.01. Additionally, bullying in nursing education was positively correlated with academic emotion, s = 0.25, P < 0.01. Conclusion: The academic emotion and teacher support of nursing students are at a moderate level. Part of the challenges in nursing survival is due to bullying in nursing education. Nursing educators should prioritize the stable development of nursing staff.