Relationship between coping, self-esteem, individual factors and mental health among Chinese nursing students: A matched case-control study

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 338-343

  Ni, Chunping ^a   Liu, Xiwen ^a   Hua, Qianzhen ^a   Lv, Aili ^b   Wang, Bo ^a   Yan, Yongping ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coping; Individual factors; Mental health; Nursing students; SCL 90; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949261534     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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