Stress and coping strategies among nurses in the university college hospital

Pages: 1231-1233
Sandhya Rai and Reshma Tauheed (Department of Psychology, MGKV, Varanasi, UP)

The present study examines the level of stress and the coping strategies among nurses in the university college hospitals. The sample was comprised of 100 nurses in various hostels selected by a stratified random sampling. A socio-demographic questionnaire was used to identify nurses for the sample under study. Perceptions of Stressful Situation (PSS) by Cohen, (1983) and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation (CISS) by Endler & Pparker, (1999) were used to assess level of stress and coping among selected nurses. Descriptive statistics, item-total coefficients of correlation, correlation were used to analyze the data. Mean and SD of stress measure for nurses (M = 21.478, SD = 7.438), and, Mean and SD of task-oriented coping for nurses (M = 49.888, SD = 7.645), emotion-oriented coping for nurses (M = 44.533, SD = 7.333) as well as avoidance-oriented coping for nurses (M = 48.888, SD = 7.234) measures of coping strategies. The reliability indices of stress measure for nurses (SH = 0.829), and task-oriented coping for nurses (SH = 0.708), emotion-oriented coping for nurses (SH = 0.611), as well as avoidance-oriented coping for nurses (SH = 0.567) measures of coping strategies emerged to be robust, and that the task-oriented coping, emotion-oriented coping and avoidance-oriented coping emerged to be an independent over the levels of analysis (for nurses).