RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Internship year represents the first independent practice nurse graduates with the real work environment with all its challenges. The transition from student nurse to qualified staff nurse is often filled with overwhelming stress. Many nurse interns reported being distressed and emotionally overwhel...

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Main Authors: Amal Mohamed Hussein Shehata, Fatma Ramadan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-07-01
Series:Indian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing
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Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/2231-1505.262419
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description Internship year represents the first independent practice nurse graduates with the real work environment with all its challenges. The transition from student nurse to qualified staff nurse is often filled with overwhelming stress. Many nurse interns reported being distressed and emotionally overwhelmed in dealing with new or traumatic experiences when rotating various critical clinical settings. The experienced stress is likely to be exacerbated by lack of emotional regulation and adopting immature defenses that cause many forms of defensive behaviors. This study aimed to identify the relationship between emotional regulation strategies and self –reported ego defense styles among nursing interns at Alexandria Main University Hospital. Subjects of this study included 100 nursing interns in the internship year 2014-2015. Data was collected by using Defense Style Questionnaire 40’' (DSQ-40) and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). The finding showed that, mature defense style is positively correlated to cognitive reappraisal of emotional regulation, whereas, immature defense style was positively correlated to emotional suppression. A significant difference was noted between gender and emotional regulation strategies, female interns tend to use more cognitive reappraisal, whereas, male tend to use more emotional suppression.
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spelling doaj-art-3b85b749edb841f0907429ffc80ff8a12025-08-20T03:15:47ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing2231-15052017-07-011413810.4103/2231-1505.262419RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALAmal Mohamed Hussein ShehataFatma RamadanInternship year represents the first independent practice nurse graduates with the real work environment with all its challenges. The transition from student nurse to qualified staff nurse is often filled with overwhelming stress. Many nurse interns reported being distressed and emotionally overwhelmed in dealing with new or traumatic experiences when rotating various critical clinical settings. The experienced stress is likely to be exacerbated by lack of emotional regulation and adopting immature defenses that cause many forms of defensive behaviors. This study aimed to identify the relationship between emotional regulation strategies and self –reported ego defense styles among nursing interns at Alexandria Main University Hospital. Subjects of this study included 100 nursing interns in the internship year 2014-2015. Data was collected by using Defense Style Questionnaire 40’' (DSQ-40) and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). The finding showed that, mature defense style is positively correlated to cognitive reappraisal of emotional regulation, whereas, immature defense style was positively correlated to emotional suppression. A significant difference was noted between gender and emotional regulation strategies, female interns tend to use more cognitive reappraisal, whereas, male tend to use more emotional suppression.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/2231-1505.262419emotional regulationego defense stylesnursing interns
spellingShingle Amal Mohamed Hussein Shehata
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Indian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing
emotional regulation
ego defense styles
nursing interns
title RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
title_full RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
title_fullStr RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
title_full_unstemmed RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
title_short RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES AND SELF –REPORTED EGO DEFENSE STYLES AMONG NURSING INTERNS AT ALEXANDRIA MAIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
title_sort relationship between emotional regulation strategies and self reported ego defense styles among nursing interns at alexandria main university hospital
topic emotional regulation
ego defense styles
nursing interns
url https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/2231-1505.262419
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