Specific coping styles and its relationship with psychological distress, anxiety, mental health, and psychological well‐being among student nurses during the second wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic.

ANXIETY prevention; COVID-19; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; PREVENTION of psychological stress; WELL-being; STATISTICAL power analysis; STATISTICS; SPIRITUALITY; ANALYSIS of variance; CROSS-sectional method; MULTIPLE regression analysis; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); T-test (Statistics); SCALE analysis (Psychology); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; NURSING students; PSYCHOLOGICAL disengagement; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis; INFORMATION-seeking behavior; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; COVID-19 pandemic; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience

Purpose: To identify specific coping skills that contribute to relieving anxiety and stress while supporting student nurses' mental health and psychological well‐being. Design and Method: This is a cross‐sectional online survey involving 261 students nurses from private and government‐owned nursing schools in the Central Philippines. Results: Resilience was associated with reduced stress and anxiety and better mental health and psychological well‐being. Mental disengagement was associated with lower anxiety and stress levels. Spiritual and not scientific sources of support were associated with lower stress and increased psychological well‐being and mental health. Practice Implications: Nurse faculty should foster functional coping skills in student nurses to enhance their ability to endure negative psychological and mental health outcomes related to the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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