Assessing the Spiritual Intelligence and its Influence on selected Coping Strategy among Nursing Students
Journal Title: Journal of Nursing Today - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
Nursing students across the world experience stress and anxiety during their training and education. In order to cope with their stress, students are using lot of coping strategies. Among all Spirituality is one of the coping strategies that they usually start from their childhood and to some extent, it is in built in them.In view of this, a study was undertaken with an aim to assess the spiritual intelligence and its influence on selected coping strategy among nursing students at selected college, Thrissur. The main objectives were to assess the level of spiritual intelligence among nursing students, to assess the influence of spiritual intelligence on selected coping strategy among nursing students and to find out the association between spiritual intelligence among the nursing students with their selected demographic variables. Descriptive design was used and the sample were 215 Bsc nursing students who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Purposive sampling technique was used. The data was collected usingDemographic sheet, scale of spiritual intelligence and ‘Brief R cope scale’. The study finding revealed that only 5 (2 %) students had high level of spiritual intelligence, 10 (5 %)students had moderate level of spiritual intelligence whereas 200 (93 %) of students having low level of spiritual intelligence. A negative correlation -0.55* was found between the spiritual intelligence of nursing students and coping strategies which is statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance .This depicts that spiritual intelligence is inversely proportionate to the coping strategies used by the students during their stressful period. The association between spiritual intelligence of B.sc nursing students with their selected demographic variables such as occupational status of mother (6.004*), Frequency of praying (35.62*), Frequency of attending religious centers (35.44*) are found to be statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance.
Authors and Affiliations
Abhijith V Rajeev, Aleena Jose, Alphy Andrews, Anitta Mathew, Anjana Varghese, Anu Thomas, Praveena P, Kavitha B
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