Emotional Regulation and Psychological Well-Being of Newcomer Nursing Students

Abstract

Background: Emotion regulation is a term used to describe a person s capability to efficiently manage and respond to an emotional experience especially during time of stress. The analysis of how newcomer nursing students regulate their emotions and its impact on their psychological wellbeing is a crucial important. Aim: assessed difficulties of emotional regulation and psychological well-being of newcomer nursing students, and discovered the relation between them. Setting: Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University in Tanta city, Egypt. Subject: 387 Newcomer nursing students at the first year academically of Faculty of Nursing. Research design: the present study has followed descriptive correlation design. Tools: two tools were used for data collection; tool one was Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Tool two was Ruff Psychological well- being Scale, in addition to socio-demographic data. Result: the current study showed that the newcomer nursing students had moderate levels of difficulties in emotional regulations and psychological well- being. There was a statically negative correlation between psychological well- being and difficulties of emotions regulation. Conclusion: more difficulties in regulating emotions leads to more decrease in students psychological well - being. Recommendation: Educational training program should be prepare for learning and training new nursing students strategies to improve their emotional regulations, and well- being.