Stressful Life Events and Quality of Life in Nursing Students

Song, Yeoung-Suk

The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 2012;18(1):71-80.
Published online December 31, 2011.

Song, Yeoung-Suk;

College of Nursing, Kyungpook National University

간호대학생의 생활스트레스와 삶의 질

송영숙

경북대학교 간호대학

Abstract

Purpose
This study was conducted to assess stressful life events and quality of life in nursing students. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional research design. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect data on participants' socio-demographics, stressful life events (interpersonal relationship & task-related events) and quality of life (WHOQOL-Bref) in September 2011. Descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical multiple regression were applied to data analysis. Results: A total of 135 nursing students were surveyed. The score of the task-related stressful life events was higher than that of the interpersonal stressful life events. Physical domain score ($13.53{pm}2.33$) was highest but environmental domain score ($12.75{pm}2.34$) was lowest in quality of life. Satisfaction with campus life affected stressful life events (F=11.82, p<.001) and quality of life (F=17.77, p<.001), and extracurricular activities affect quality of life (t=-2.51, p=.013). Quality of life was negatively associated with task-related stressful life events (r=.-51, p<.001). Multiple regression analyses showed that extracurricular activities, satisfaction with campus life and task-related stressful life events were statistically significant in predicting quality of life with the explanatory power of 40.6%. Conclusion: This study could be a reference to improve the quality of life of nursing students.

Key Words: Stressful life events, Quality of life