A Good Art of Living: Psychological Resilience among Nursing Students

Abstract

Introduction: “Webster describes resilience as “a strained body’s ability to regain its size and shape
after deformation caused especially by Occlusion stress”. Resilience can be described as, “the process
of adjusting well in the face of adversity, trauma, catastrophe, threats or even major sources of
stress”. Background Of The Study: There is indeed an increasing interest in research to explore why
certain nursing students can manage well, but when they all face similar issues and challenges during
their course, others cannot. Current studies have found that resilience in graduate student nurses is
strongly related to academic success. Need For The Study:A Positive teaching strategy must therefore
be created to promote student resilience. This report would also put further more effort to examine the
association between resilience and well-being among student nurses. Aim: To assess the psychological
resilience among different years of nursing students at selected nursing college. Methodology:
Descriptive cross sectional research design. The samples were selected randomly by lottery method
and were advised to fill the questionnaires consisting of two sections demographic variables such as
age, sex, medium of instruction, background, type of family, religion, class batch, living, bread winner
of the family and marital status and regarding the psychological resilience (Modified Connor Davidson
Resilience Scale) Findings: According to the findings of the study, among the undergraduate nursing
students 80(53.3%) of students had high resilience whereas 6(4.0%) had low resilience and 64(42.7%)
had moderate resilience. On comparison, the nursing students of different years showed that the level
of psychological resilience is high 27(58.7%) among third year students and low resilience is assessed
among 3(2.0%) final years students. The demographic variables had shown statistically no significant
association with level of psychological resilience among undergraduate nursing students. A booklet on
“I am a Resilient Person” was issued among the participants.