The mediating role of emotional intelligence on nursing students' coping strategies and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Anxiety among nursing students documented during the COVID-19 pandemic reflected their fear of contracting infections, adhering to the mandatory use of masks in public, engaging in the new experience of distance learning, having financial problems, and so on. The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of emotional intelligence (EI) on nursing students' coping strategies and anxiety during the pandemic. This cross-sectional correlational study was conducted in a university in Jordan. An online survey was used to obtain data from a sample of 282 nursing students who had returned to on-campus learning during the summer semester of 2019/2020. The survey held four parts: (a) questions about sociodemographics, (b) the General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) scale, (c) the Trait Emoti

SUBMITTER: Masha'al D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11003628 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature