Parenting Stressand Coping Style of Nurses with Preschooler

This study aims to identify the relationships between parenting stress and the coping styles of nurses who are the parents of preschoolers. The data was collected from 119 nurses, worked at a University Medical Center in Gyeonggi province from August 5 to October 31 and who were parenting preschool children. The instrumentaused for this study were the Parenting Stress Scale by Kihyun Kim and Heekyung Kang (1997) and the Stress Coping Styles Scale by Lazarusand Folkman (1984), translated into Korean by Junghee Kim (1987) and revised by Yumi Jeong (2004).The data was analyzed with the SPSS Windows 19.0 program for statistical analysis of the real numbers, percentages, one-way ANOVAs, independent t-tests, and Pearson's correlation coefficients. The results were as follows: 1. The mean score of the parenting stress level of the participants was 2.98± 0.61 out of 5,and the mean score of the stress coping style was 2.45± 0.31 out of 4. 2. The level of the nurses' parenting stress showed significant differences according to marital satisfaction (F = 7.19,p = .001), turn over intention (t=3.27,p = .001), satisfaction with parenting support from their husbands (F = 4.63,p = .012), and satisfaction with the consideration offered to parents at workplace (F = 6.82,p = .002). The level of the nurses' stress coping styles was statistically different according to marital satisfaction (F =4.70,p=.011) in the lower categories of the general characteristics. 3. There was no significant statistical correlation between the nurses' parenting stress levels and their stress coping styles. Among the parenting stress factors,-'parenting role performance burden' and 'de-stressing factors'-had a negative correlation with each other (r = -.23, p = .010), and 'problem-based coping style' could be found in the lower categories of the stress-coping styles. The results of this study reveal that nurses with preschoolers suffered from parenting stress much more than do non-nurses who have preschoolers, and their parenting stress is induced mostly by external factors such as lack of support from husband and work place. Thus, it is necessary to implement a practical and specific system to reduce the parenting stress of nurses who nurture preschoolers.

Author dc:creator

• 박, 미현

Contributors dc:contributor

• 박, 지원
• 대학원 간호학과
• 201224072

• 간호사
• 양육스트레스
• 스트레스 대처방식
• Nurse
• Parenting Stress
• Stress Coping Styles
• Preschoolers

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ko

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