Current Status of Resilience in Nursing Faculty and Related Factors

<p>〔Purpose〕The purpose of this study is to clarify the current status of resilience in nursing faculty. Furthermore, we aim to understand the relationship between nursing faculty’s resilience and self-education ability or social support at the workplace.</p><p>〔Method〕We asked 56 nursing educational institutions in two provinces for permission to conduct our study. We mailed anonymous self-administered questionnaires to 336 full-time nursing faculty from educational institutions that gave us permission to perform the study. Three instruments−the “scale of adolescent resilience,” “scale of self-education ability,” and “scale of social support at the workplace”−were used. </p><p>〔Results〕We collected 159 responses （response rate 47.3%）, of which 155 were valid. We found that resilience in nursing faculty was significantly related to self-education ability, social support at the workplace, type of educational institution, job status, and educational background. Multiple regression analysis revealed that self-education ability, social support at the workplace, and type of educational institution were significant predictors of resilience, explaining 58.0% of the variance in these variables. Self-education ability exerted the strongest influence on resilience among nursing faculty.</p><p>〔Discussion〕Nursing faculties are predisposed to stress because of pressure to improve their teaching ability. We believe that nursing faculty may be able to overcome this stress if they can feel that their teaching ability has improved, which can be done by changing their teaching methods through exertion of self-education ability.</p>