Professional confidence in baccalaureate nursing students

Self-confidence level in professional athletes; an examination of exposure to violence, branch and socio-demographic aspects

“…Although it was observed in this study that the sense of self-confidence did not differ significantly among the groups in terms of marital status and education level, some studies in the literature showed that education and self-confidence went parallel with each other and selfconfidence level of the students increased with the organization of training programs (Brown et al, 2003;Esterl, Henzi and Cohn, 2006;Merey, 2010). The reason why education was a variable that did not make a difference in terms of self-confidence in this study unlike the literature findings was thought to be resulted from the fact that the athletes who participated in the study were high school and university graduates and professional athletes to a large extent.…”

Iranian nursing students' preparedness for clinical training: A qualitative study

“…A good nursing care would be performed with self-confidence (Brown et al, 2003), yet low selfconfidence is one of the problems of the nursing students (Edwards et al, 2004). Low self-confidence would be followed by anxiety and fear of negative evaluation (Begley and White, 2003).…”

Perceptions of clinical competence among nurse pregraduates: Do different types of nursing programs make a difference?

“…These results are similar to findings from a previous study, in which new graduate nurses generally perceived themselves as competent [18] . The students' confidence in their clinical competence, however, may be explained by researchers' reports that some nursing students may overrate or fake confidence when they are asked to evaluate their competence [26,27] . Further analyses of the data in our study showed that students in all three programs perceived a higher level of confidence in their nursing professional behaviours and general performance competencies at Time 1 than at Time 2.…”