ABSTRACT
Objective To analyze the professional psychological pressure and coping style of male nursing students during different learning stage,and discuss effective ways to solve these problems in order to promote physical and mental health development of male nursing students.Methods Using coping style questionnaire and the professional psychological pressure of nursing students questionnaire to survey 102 undergraduate male nursing students from grade 2005 to 2008 of a nursing college of certain province.Results The professional psychological pressure of undergraduate male nursing students was moderate.Male nursing students of different grades had different professional pressure,in which male nursing students of secondyear had lower professional psychological pressure than other students.Manners they adopted to cope with pressure were mature,that is,the "problem-solving-help" approach,in which ways taken by second-year students were more than others.Conclusions Social bias to male nurses should be corrected.Professional psychological education should be carried out to relieve their mental pressure according to characteristics of students in different stage and direct them to realize role change.