Coping Stress Inventory

Stressors, Academic Performance, and Learned Resourcefulness in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

“…These frustrations were also cited frequently in 249 college students, using the SSI, although the focus of the study was student academic stress in comparison to faculty perceptions (Misra et al, 2000). Frustrations have been a major finding in several other studies of college students (Gadzella et al, 1992;Gadzella & Guthrie, 1993;Gadzella, 1994;Gigliotti, 2004). A study examining perceived multiple role stress and social support in 132 married associate degree nursing students (85.8% Caucasian) at 11 community colleges in New York and New Jersey found that the meaning of the support, who gave it, and what kind received was most important in reducing maternal-student role stress in two age group subsamples: under 37 (n = 73) and 37 and older (n = 59) (Gigliotti, 2004).…”

“…For example, concurrent validities were reported for the SSI for 95 students in 1991 (Cronbach's alpha ranging from .52 for the Frustrations scale to .85 for the Changes scale), 290 students in 1994 (p = .0009), and 381 male and female students enrolled in psychology courses at all levels of a state university in 2001 (Cronbach's alpha = .92) (Gadzella, 1994b;Gadzella & Baloglu, 2001;Gadzella, Fullwood, et al, 1991). Results using Pearson product moment correlation coefficients revealed the following significant differences in stress levels for two responses in each of the nine categories of the instrument for 87 college students: .78 for all participants, .92 for males, and .72 for females (Gadzella & Guthrie, 1993 Schmeck, Ribich, and Ramanaiah (1977). Results showed several significant relationships with the four scales of the ILP, including a positive correlation between cognitive appraisal of stressors and application of this information to specific experiences (Gadzella et al, 1998).…”