The Influence of Personality Traits and Social Support on Male Nursing Student Life Stress: A Cross-Sectional Research Design

男護生人格特質、社會支持對生活壓力之影響：橫斷式研究設計

駱俊宏(Jiunn-Horng Lou) ； 陳勝皇(Sheng-Hwang Chen) ； 余幸宜(Hsing-Yi Yu) ； 李仁豪(Ren-Hau Li) ； 楊政議(Cheng-I Yang) ； 黃貞裕(Cheng-Joo Eng)

《The Journal of Nursing Research》 18卷2期 (2010/06) Pp. 108-116

摘要

背景　男護生於學習過程面臨各層面之生活壓力，降低其生活壓力有助於護理專業發展。
目的　本研究目的分別為探討男護生人格特質、社會支持與生活壓力狀況，以及瞭解男護生人格特質、社會支持對生活壓力之影響。
方法　採橫斷式研究法，針對台灣中部某護專男護生共158位進行調查，有效問卷145份，回收率91.7%。研究問卷包含四部分：基本屬性、人格特質量表、社會支持量表、及生活壓力量表。所收集之資料以描述性統計、單因子變異數分析、以及複迴歸進行分析。
結果　一、男護生的人格特質分數及感受到的社會支持及生活壓力皆為中等以上，在生活壓力上之學習壓力和人生目標壓力大於人際壓力。二、父親和母親的教育程度、家庭支持和盡責的人格特質會影響男護生的生活壓力。三、父親、母親的教育程度和家庭支持是男護生生活壓力程度的有效預測因子，其解釋量為23.7%。
結論／實務應用　建議各層級護理學校教育中，應增加男護生學習壓力與職涯發展課程；同時增加家庭支持以減少男護生學習過程中的生活壓力，本研究可作為男護生生活壓力調適之參考。

關鍵字

生活壓力 ； 男護生 ； 人格特質 ； 社會支持

並列摘要

Background: Understanding how male nursing students alleviate life stress during their academic career is conducive to their development as successful nursing professionals.
Purpose: This study was designed to understand the personality traits, social support, and life stresses of male nursing students. The respective influences of personality traits and social support on life stress were also explored.
Methods: The study used a cross-sectional research design. A college in central Taiwan was targeted as the site for data collection. A total of 158 questionnaires were dispatched, with 145 valid copies returned (valid response rate=91.7%). Structured questionnaires were designed to collect data on participant demographics, personality traits, social support, and life stress. Statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis were applied to data analysis.
Results: Major findings of this study revealed that (a) in general, the personality traits, social support, and life stress of male nursing students scored in the medium to high range. Participants reported encountering more stress from learning and life goals than from interpersonal stress. (b) Male nursing student demographic variables (e.g., parent [father and mother considered separately] education level) and the personality traits of conscientiousness and family support, respectively, were found to impact significantly on participant life stress perceptions. And (c) the only significant predictors of life stress were support from family and education level of participant fathers and mothers, accounting for about 23.7% of variability.
Conclusions and Implications for Practice: It is suggested that nursing students in each year of their academic career should be exposed to courses geared to reduce the life stress perceptions (especially in the areas of learning and career development) of male nursing students. Increased family support is an effective way to decrease male nursing student life stress. This study could be a reference for the design and application of strategies to reduce the perceived life stress of male nursing students.

並列關鍵字

life stress ； male nursing students ； personality traits ； social support

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