Project Director

Hand, Kelli

Department Examiner

Kemplin, Katherine; Norwood, Barbara

Department

Dept. of Nursing

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Identifying certain personality constructs can be a method to recognize current and potential nursing students who can weather the challenges of a difficult major and profession. The psychological constructs of resilience and entitlement have gained increased focus in recent years, but have yet to be studied together, especially in the context of nursing students. This research employed a quantitative cross-sectional descriptive correlational design to quantify students’ responses and associations regarding resilience and entitlement. 137 undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students were recruited through convenience sampling to take both the 15-item Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS-15) and the Psychological Entitlement Scale (PES). Several individual relationships between questions indicated that higher levels of entitlement negatively associated with certain aspects of resilience, such as openness to new challenges and changes. Results were contradictory for other items where higher resilience was positively associated with higher entitlement. These results indicate that the measures may not be mutually exclusive. Educators can take note of their students’ scores in order to better know how to encourage and support students’ education and professional socialization.

IRB Number

17-016

Degree

B. S.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Science.

Date

5-2018

Subject

Nursing students; Resilience (Personality trait)

Keyword

Resilience; Entitlement; Nursing students

Discipline

Nursing

Document Type

Theses

Extent

34 leaves

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Download

Included in

Nursing Commons

Share

COinS