• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.259-268
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• 2016

This study investigates convergent influence on college life adaptation and its association with life stress, depression and ego resiliency among of nursing students. The data of life stress, depression and ego resiliency on college life adaptation was collected for the nursing students of G city from Dec. 5th 2015 to Feb. 8th 2016. There was a significant difference in life stress, college life adaptation according to club experience and grade level, depression according to best friend and ego resiliency according to satisfaction with major. Adaptation to college life was negatively correlated with life stress and it was positively correlated with ego resiliency. Life stress and ego resiliency is a significant predictor of college life adaptation in nursing students. Their explanatory power was 32.9%. In order to help nursing college students to adapt to college life well, it will be necessary to provide the intervention to decrease the degree of life stress and to the improvement convergence program on ego resiliency.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.14-22
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• 2022

This study was conducted to promote male nursing students' adaptation to college life by identifying life stress, grit, and degree of adaptation to college life, and the effect of grit mediating effect on the relationship between life stress and college life adjustment. became The subjects of this study were 209 male nursing college students enrolled in nursing departments in 5 major cities. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS/WIN 25.0. Life stress showed a significant negative correlation with college life adaptation and grit, but grit showed a positive correlation with college life adaptation. As a result of mediating effect verification, the final model explained 43.5% of college life adaptation. Therefore, in order to improve male nursing students' adaptation to college life, it is required to develop a program that can lower life stress and increase grit and college life adaptation level.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.815-824
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• 2021

Purpose: This study was to identify the degree of academic stress, college life Adjustment, and social support perceived by nursing students, and to identify the mediating effect of social support between academic stress and college life Adjustment. The participants were 248 nursing college students who have experience in field practice at 4 universities in G metropolitan city. Data analysis was analyzed using SPSS 24.0 as Descriptive statistics, Independent-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson's correction, and Bootstrapping. Results: The study found 2.68 points for academic stress, 4.11 points for social support, and 3.5 points for college life adjustment. Academic stress was negative correlation with social support and Adjustment to college life, social support was positive correlation with Adjustment to college life. As a result of the analysis by applying the mediating effect verification model 4, first, academic stress had a significant negative effect on social support, second, academic stress had a negative effect on college life adjustment, and social support had a positive effect on college life adjustment. Third, the analysis of the total, direct, and indirect effects of academic stress and social support on college life adjustment showed that they were all significant. In conclusion, it has been found that social support has a partially controlled mediating effect between academic stress and college life adjustment.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.557-564
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived stress, college life adjustment, and interpersonal relationship ability in nursing college students and investigate whether or not interpersonal relationship ability mediate the relationship between perceived stress and college life adjustment. Data were collected from 281 nursing students in B city and analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression, and sobel test using SPSS/WIN 23.0. The degree of college life adjustment in nursing students was 3.38±0.58. There was negative correlation between college life adjustment and perceived stress(r=-.478, p<.001), positive correlation between college life adaptation and interpersonal relationship ability(r=.617, p<.001). The interpersonal relationship ability had partial mediating(β=.629, p<.001) effect between perceived stress and college life adjustment among nursing students. Therefore, in order to promote college life adjustment of nursing students, and decrease perceived stress, it is necessary to development education and program that to improve interpersonal relationship ability.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.269-276
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Grit and stress and college adjustment of nursing college students and to confirm the effect of nursing students' adaptation to college life. The study subjects were 145 students who agreed to participate in this study after completing at least one semester of clinical practice. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 23.0 program using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, Multiple regression analysis. There was a significant positive correlation between college life adaptation and grit (r=.17, p=.047) and a negative correlation between stress and university life (r=-.31, p<.001). Grit and stress had an explanatory power of 11.2% on adaptation to college life(F=9.98, p<.001). The results of this study suggest that it is necessary to improve nursing students' Grit level and to develop effective stress management programs for their adaptation to college life.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.331-339
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was examine the mediating effects of psychological flexibility and entrapment on the relationship between college students's life stress and adjustment to college life. A sample of 142 college students at a university located in Jeonju city completed self-report measures of life stress, psychological flexibility, entrapment and adjustment to college life. In order to examine the mediating effect, The collected data from college students were analyzed by the procedures prosposed by Baron and Kenny. Psychological flexibility and entrapment partially mediated the relationship between life stress and adjustment to college life, indicating that life stress directly affect adjustment to college life and indirectly affect adjustment to college life through psychological flexibility and entrapment. Finally, limitations of the results of this study and therapeutic interventions to prevent maladjustment by college students were discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.483-492
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• 2016

This study was conducted to identify the correlation between the school-life stress, depression and college adjustment of dormitory residents, in order to provide the basic data needed to establish a strategy to improve the adjustment of college students. The subjects were 210 students in Korea. The data were collected using a self-report questionnaire from September 13 to 19, 2014, and analyzed by frequency, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson's correlation using the SPSS Win 21 program. The school-life stress, depression and college adjustment of the students residing in the dormitory on a 5-point scale were 2.43, 1.88 and 3.81, respectively. School-life stress had a significant positive correlation with depression (r=.639, p<.001) and significant negative correlation with college adjustment (r=-.709, p<.001). Depression had a significant negative correlation with college adjustment (r=-.788, p<.001). Those students with a higher school-life stress showed higher levels of depression and lower levels of college adjustment. Those students with a higher level of depression showed a lower level of college adjustment. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and test a suitable program in order to understand the differences between psychological adjustment based on gender, and to decrease school-life stress and depression and increase college adjustment.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.257-266
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• 2018

This descriptive research study was conducted to identify the connection between life stress and depression in nursing college students. The data was collected targeting 311 students at colleges of nursing from November 20, 2017 to December 5, 2017, and analyzed through the multiple linear regression analysis method using the SPSS 20.0 statistics program. The results of this study found that there was a difference between life stress and depression in relation to the college life satisfaction among general and health-related characteristics. The level of life stress was the highest in academic problems; and the level of depression was 16.52. According to the results of correlation analysis, all the domains of life stress showed a significantly positive correlation with depression. When it comes to the effects of life stress on depression, there was a significant difference in the relationship with friends and views of value, and the level of explanatory power was 36.2%. In conclusion, this study suggests the necessity of developing intervention programs to reduce life stress and conducting the follow-up studies which are designed to establish various predictors that may act as life stress in college nursing students, based on the results of the effects of life stress on depression in nursing college students.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.684-695
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• 2018

This study is aim to examine the influence of the social supports factor of the college students who majors in health or social welfare on their college adjustment and whether or not academic stress would perform a mediating role in the relationship between social supports factor and college adjustment. The subjects in this study were the college students who majored in health or social welfare in Gyeongsang Namdo Province. Data were collected through self reported structured questionnaire form using convenient sampling methods. The findings of the study were as follows: First, the social supports factor and academic stress factor of the college students were found to have exerted a statistically significant influence on college adjustment. Second, the academic stress factor was found to have had partial mediating effects on the relationship between the social supports factor and college adjustment. The findings of the study illustrated that the academic stress factor played a buffering role in the social supports factor that affected the college adjustment of the college students.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors affecting suicidal ideation, and suggest the implications for suicide prevention policy among college students based on that analysis. Empirical model including the affecting factors, such as college life stress, stress coping type, self-esteem, and maladjustment perfectionism, was developed based on the previous studies. The data were collected from 350 college students at Busan Metropolitan City areas using a self-administered structured questionnaire. The major results of this study are as follows. First, suicidal ideation was significantly lower among students with higher campus life satisfaction. Second, significant positive affecting factors on suicidal ideation were maladjustment perfectionism, interpersonal stress, boys, emotion-oriented coping type, whereas, negative factors were self-esteem. Among the significant affecting factors, self-esteem had the greatest influence. These results suggest that measures improving college life satisfaction and education and training programs for improving human relation skills and stress-coping types, mitigating maladjustment perfectionism, and enhancing self-esteem should be explored and executed properly.