Perfectionism, Self-Compassion and Depressive Symptoms among Nursing Students | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 19, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2019, Page 245-260 PDF (285.89 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.65534 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Hanaa Hamdy Ali El Zeny; Nelly Rafat Abdel-Fattah; Safia Ragab El Sebaie; Faten Farid Ali Mohamed | ||||
| Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Perfectionism plays an important role in nursing students’ adjustment to training in the nursing profession. Self-compassion is among the characteristics that nursing students need to have to be empathetic with themselves and with patients. Perfectionistic students develop a strict thinking that hinders a compassionate attitude towards oneself causing greater depressive symptoms. Aimed to: Assess perfectionism, self-compassion and depressive symptoms among nursing students. Design: Descriptive design was used. Setting: The present study was done at the Technical Institute of Nursing Zagazig University. Subjects and methods: A stratified sample was used in the current study, which composed of 280 nursing students. Tools of data collection: The first tool composed of two parts: socio-demographic data sheet, and Hewitt and Flett's multidimensional perfectionism scale. The second tool was the Neff’s Self-Compassion Scale, and the third tool was beck depression inventory scale (BDI-II). Results: nearly all of the students had a high level of perfectionism, nearly three qurater of nursing students had a moderate level of self-compassion. Furthermore, the study revealed that statistically significant weak to moderate negative correlations were demonstrated between the scores of students` self-compassion from one side and each of socially-prescribed perfectionism and depressive symptom scores. Conclusions: The majority of nursing students had a high level of perfectionism, and moderate level of self-compassion. Additionally, socially-prescribed perfectionism was an independent negative predictor of self-compassion, and self-compassion was an independent negative predictor of depressive symptoms among nursing students. Recommendation: Effective self-compassion interventions could be targeted to students who have perfectionistic thoughts to increase the level of kindness, and thus decrease perfectionistic thoughts. Experimental study is suggested to manage perfectionism with nursing students. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| perfectionism; self-compassion; depressive symptoms and nursing students | ||||
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