Comparison of Self-Esteem Among First to Fourth Year Nursing Students From Universities of Medical Sciences in Tehran

Abstract

Background: Self-esteem plays a critical role in promoting mental health and affects performance, development patterns, interaction with others and the mental health. Accordingly, improving the self-esteem of students, as future builders of the community, is very important. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the self-esteem of nursing students in grades one to four of medical universities in Tehran. Materials and Methods: In this analytical cross-sectional study, 400 students of the medical universities in Tehran were selected, using stratified sampling with proportional allocation. They filled a demographic information form and Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory. Data for this study were collected during a semester in 2010. Results:The results showed that the overall mean score of self-esteem (P = 0.3), and personal (P = 0.3), social (P = 0.5), parental self-esteem (P = 0.5) in the first and fourth year students did not differ statistically. The first and fourth year students presented the highest levels of social self-esteem. Fourth year students showed the highest academic and parental self-esteem compared to students in other academic years. In addition, the variables of grade point average (P = 0.02), residence (P = 0.003), family economic status (P = 0.001) and marital status (P = 0.04) had a statistically significant influence on students' self-esteem. Conclusions: Given the undeniable relationship between self-esteem and interpersonal ability to interact, as an inseparable component of effective care process, assessing and identifying factors associated with nursing students is a valuable step in improving the quality of nursing care provided in a future career of this major segment of the community.

Stress and self-esteem among nursing students at private medical college, Chitwan

“…The study revealed there is no statistical significant association between self-esteem among nursing students with place of residence (p=0.69) and. The finding of the study is not supported by the study conducted by Ghezelbash et al (2015) which showed place of residence (p=0.003). 9 The fact is that selfesteem is one's psychological condition and does not depend on residence.…”

“…Who experience low selfesteem which may lack confidence, self-critical and considers they are to be less worthy and competent than others. 9 Self-esteem is a function of identity development that results from successfully addressing the tasks associated with the developmental stages of life. According to him one's sense of developing, growing and confronting lives tasks leads to feelings of worth.…”

A four‐year longitudinal evaluation study of nursing image, self‐esteem, and profession perception among nursing students

“…In contrast, Ghezelbash et al (2015) found that fourth-year students showed the highest self-esteem levels when compared to students in other academic years. Similar to our study, a longitudinal study conducted by Edwards et al (2010) determined that student nurses' self-esteem decreased over time.…”

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“…Selfesteem is one of the most important factors in mental health that plays an important role in promotion of mental health that defined as the level of approval, acceptance and self-worth in relation to self. [12]The role of selfesteem as a moderator of stress, people having higher self-esteem in stressful situations have a higher sense of self-worth and self-efficacy that these consequences will function more effectively in these situations [27].…”