Self-compassion and emotional intelligence of nursing students

Pages: 1465-1468
Mamman Joseph C. (Department of Applied Psychology, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Neelakudi, Tamil Nadu)
Anitta Elias (BYKAS College for Women Calicut University, Malappuram, Kerala)

According to the World Health Statistics Report, 2011, there are 19.3 million nurses in the world and in India it is 1,431,000. As per the statistics in India it is recorded that thirteen nurses are for a population of ten thousand people. self-compassion and emotional intelligence are two important elements of nursing care and play a pivotal role in determining the quality of relationship between nurses, patients and families. The present study took a randomly selected 187 nursing students from first year to fourth year of B.Sc. nursing within the age range of 17 to 22 years. Neff’s Self Compassion Scale and the Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) were used to collect the data. Pearson’s product moment correlation, independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. It has been found that self-compassion has significant positive correlation with emotional intelligence.