Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine affecting stress coping styles on nurse-parent partnership in pediatric nurses. Data were obtained through questionnaires from 167 pediatric ward nurses in 10 hospital located in the Gyeonggi, Chungcheong and Gyeongsang province. The collected data were analyzed by the statistical package SPSS WIN 18.0. As a results, nurse-parent partnership had a significant positive correlation with problem focusing coping style (r=.39, p＜.001), social support navigation coping style (r=18, p=.018), positive point of view coping style (r=.36, p＜.001), relief of tension coping style (r=.23, p=.002). The significant major predictors of nurse-parent partnership were problem focusing coping style (β=.335, p＜.001) and total work experience-less than 1 year (β=.233, p=.004), department satisfaction [dissatisfaction (β=?.164, p=.020), satisfaction (β=.151, p=.032), very satisfaction (β=.148, p=.020)]. Problem focused coping style, total work experience, department satisfaction, accounted for 36.4% of variance in nurse-parent partnership. Therefore to enhance nurse-parent partnership a follow up study on the development of a program for advanced problem focused coping style, enhanced to satisfaction of department in pediatric nurses is needed. (Korean J Str Res 2016;24:47∼56)

• Keywords: Stress coping styles, Nurse-parents partnership