Relationship between the perceived stress and college life adjustment in nursing student: The mediating effect of nursing professional pride

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the role of nursing professional pride as a mediating factor between perceived stress and college life adjustment among nursing students. Methods Employing a descriptive correlation design, the study engaged 146 nursing students from a universitiy in I city. A self-report questionnaire was used to measure perceived stress, college life adjustment, and nursing professional pride. Analysis was performed using SPSS 23.0 and the mediating effects were verified through the bootstrapping method by using the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Results The mean scores of perceived stress and nursing professional pride were 2.10±0.63, 3.92±0.51, and college of life adjustment was 3.44±0.54 respectively. Perceived stress had a direct effect on college life adjustment (B=-.36, p<.001) and nursing professional pride(B=-.21, p<.001). Also, nursing professional pride had a direct effect on college life adjustment (B=.45, p<.001). Furthermore, perceived stress had an indirect effect on college life adjustment through nursing professional pride (B=-.09, p<.001). Nursing professional pride had a mediating effect on the relationship between perceived stress and college life adjustment of nursing students. Conclusions These results suggests that educationl programs and clinical training programs which consider the level of perceived stress and nursing professional pride are essential to improve the college life adjustment among nursing students.