The mediating effect of ethical sensitivity on death coping self-efficacy and psychological stress in junior college nursing in-terns
LI Peng
ZHANG Yuanhui
TANG Long
CHEN Xuelei
LIU Shan
ZHENG Xiaoni
WANG Wujiang
Abstract：Objective To explore the mediating effect of ethical sensitivity on death coping self-efficacy and psychological stress in junior college nursing interns.Methods From July to August 2023,convenience sampling was used to select 216 full-time junior college nursing interns from 6 tertiary class A hospitals in Changsha,Yiyang and Guilin as the research objects.The investigation was carried out with the General Information Questionnaire,Death Coping Self-efficacy Scale,Ethical Sensitivity Questionnaire for Nursing Students and Impact of Event Scale-revised.Results The scores of death coping self-efficacy,ethical sensitivity and psychological stress of junior college nursing in-terns were(90.83±17.14),(39.54±5.99)and(29.81±13.04),respectively.Psychological stress was negatively correlated with death coping self-efficacy and ethical sensitivity(r1=-0.221,r2=-0.442,P＜0.01).There was a positive correlation between death coping self-efficacy and ethical sensitivity(r=0.288,P＜0.01).Ethical sensitivity played a complete mediating effect between death coping self-efficacy and psy-chological stress,with an effect value of-1.099,accounting for 99.46％of the total effect.Conclusion Psychological stress is common among junior college nursing interns,and ethical sensitivity plays a complete mediating role on the death coping self-efficacy and psychological stress.School education and clinical teaching should pay attention to multi-dimensional intervention to improve the ethical sensitivity of nurs-ing students,so as to improve the death coping self-efficacy and reduce their psychological stress.
Keywords：nursing internpsychological stressevent impactethical sensitivitydeath coping self-efficacymediating effect
Publication Date：2024-11-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 973-978 )