The Level of Psychological Stress among Female Students of Princess Aisha School of Nursing at Al Hussein Bin Talal University: Descriptive Study

Abstract

The purpose of the article to cast the light on the psychological pressures that encounter freshmen students at the Princess Aisha School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in due to the difficulty in adapting to the new university life and the difficulty in adapting to the social environment within the university and in university housing for students. Thus, this study shed the light on the level of psychological stress in the students of Princess Aisha School of Nursing at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in Jordan. It is depended on the descriptive approach and selected a random sample of female students includes (100 female students) from the students of Princess Aisha School and it applied the Psychological Stress Scale among them. After data analysis, the main findings indicate that the overall level of psychological pressure in the sample of the study sample was intermediate. The average of the psychological stress index as a whole was 2.64 with a moderate evaluation. Also, the table shows that the mathematical averages of the responses for individuals in a random sample of the sub-dimensions of the psychological stress scale ranged between (2.33-2.77). The academic pressures were ranked first with an average of (2.77) and a high rating, then personal pressure was ranked secondly with an average of (2.74) and a high score, and social stress was ranked with an average arithmetic (2.73) and high score, Finally, family pressure was ranked fourth with an arithmetic average (2.33) and the degree of assessment of medium. In the current study, the researcher recommended to participate in counselling programs to identify effective strategies for coping with psychological stress and applying it in their daily lives, and increase the number of psychological, educational and academic guidance centres in university educational institutions to provide extension services to students in various fields. And focus on the difficulties and pressures experienced by students and their relationship to other variables.