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Just grin and bear it?

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Date Issued:
2010
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Past research has found that among traumatized undergraduate women, proactive coping style was independently negatively associated with posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity. It also shows that nurses experience many work-related traumas. The present study tests the PTSD symptom level in nursing students and measured whether proactive coping and other personality variables could successfully buffer the effects of trauma. This study found a surprisingly low PTSD symptom level among the nursing students though they reported several distressing traumas. Also surprising, participants reported more distress from traumas relating to verbal abuse than to traumas relating to death and/or severe injury. Proactive coping, optimism, and self-esteem were negatively related to PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Further research will be needed to support these findings.
Title: Just grin and bear it?: proactive coping and PTSD in nursing students.
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Name(s): Borges-Garcia, Raquel.
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Thesis
Issuance: multipart monograph
Date Issued: 2010
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: v, 48 p. : ill.
Language(s): English
Summary: Past research has found that among traumatized undergraduate women, proactive coping style was independently negatively associated with posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity. It also shows that nurses experience many work-related traumas. The present study tests the PTSD symptom level in nursing students and measured whether proactive coping and other personality variables could successfully buffer the effects of trauma. This study found a surprisingly low PTSD symptom level among the nursing students though they reported several distressing traumas. Also surprising, participants reported more distress from traumas relating to verbal abuse than to traumas relating to death and/or severe injury. Proactive coping, optimism, and self-esteem were negatively related to PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Further research will be needed to support these findings.
Identifier: 779177300 (oclc), 3334254 (digitool), FADT3334254 (IID), fau:1393 (fedora)
Note(s): by Raquel Borges-Garcia.
Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Honors College, 2010.
Includes ibliography.
Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s): Post-traumatic stress disorder
Nursing students -- Mental health
Nurses -- Job stress
Nurses -- Conduct of life
Resilience (Personality trait)
Stress management
Burn out (Psychology) -- Prevention
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