A Cross-Cutural Study for the Effect of Resilience for Psychological Health for Nursing Students

Purpose: To explore the state level as well as the relationship of stress ,resilience and psychological health in nursing students between UK and China, with the purpose of searching for a strategy to forming an effective way to ease stress and psychological distress in nursing education program and make more healthy for this participates. 

Methods: To collect the data, Resilience Scale, Stress in nursing students Scale and Genaral Health Questionaire-12 were used 1538 Chinese nursing students were investigated for making assesment for mutiple dimentions of Resilience, Stress and Psychological Health. Descriptive statistic analysis, correlation analysis as well as stepwise multiple regression analysis were examined on matching pairs of data. Convenient sampling method were used for this study. Then the result was been compared with the UK study for the state level of the same undergraduate nursing students measured by the same Stress in Nursing Students Scale and Genaral Health Questionnaire-12. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0.

Results: The mean score of resilience was 121.84(SD=21.30). A comparison of the scores for the dimensions of the SINS showed a relative difference in terms of mean scores and in deacending order. The sample ranked themselves as "clinacal"(M=31.12,SD=8.18),"fininance"(M=17.35,SD=5.48),"confidence"(M=17.14,SD=5.15),"education"(M=14.43,SD=4.06). The mean score of psychological health was 6.20(SD=1.83). Resilience was found to be related significantly with stress and psychological health with the correlation coefficient is -0.195 and 0.064 respectively. Besides, four sub-scale of resilience are also highly correlated stress and psychological health except meaningfulness in these participants. Compared with UK, the state level of Stress and Psychological Health of Chinese nursing students was in the same high level.

Conclusion: This study illustrated that resilience was a stronger predictor of stress and psychological health including in China and UK. Further research will be carried out to implement the strategies or interventions including nursing education programs and competencies in enhancing resilience in global nursing research.