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3rd International Conference on Perinatal Nursing & Adolescent Psychiatry

Vancouver, Canada

Radha Acharya Pandey

Institute of Medicine, Nepal

Title: Self-Esteem and Academic Stress among Nursing Students

Biography

Biography: Radha Acharya Pandey

Abstract

Background: Stress and self-esteem are common issues that everyone has to cope with at some time in their lives and they could also affect other things going on in a persons’ life. Academic stress is psychological condition often experienced by college students as, to some extent, being multidimensional variables. Among others are self-esteem and psychological well-being which are considered to have influences in explaining why college students experience stress.

Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the self-esteem level and academic stress among the nursing students.

 Methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried out in 2012. Total respondents were 190 nursing students selected randomly from Kathmandu University. Academic stress was assed using 30-item Scale for Assessing Academic Stress (SAAS) and Self-esteem was assessed using 10 item Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale. Information was collected through the self-administered questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 16 software. Simple statistics measurement, percentage, means, correlation was used for the data analysis.
 Results: This study shows mean age of the respondent’s was 20.44 (±2.67) years. Majority (88%) of students getting financial support of NRs less than 6000 ($60) per month and 64% have low perceived family support. This study found mean score of self-esteem and academic stress was 11.9 and 18.4 respectively. Further nearly 78% students have low self-esteem and 74% have high academic stress. Significant variable for high academic stress and low self-esteem were lower the age, lower the education and low perceived family support. Lower financial support has also has high academic stress.

Conclusion: Nepalese nursing students have low self-esteem and high academic stress. Intervention to lower the academic stress and increase the self-esteem should be carried out so that the learning of students will be efficient.

Keywords: Academic stress, Self-esteem, Nursing students.