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- Title
THE MALE BEING IN PSYCHIC SUFFERING IN THE NURSING COURSE.
- Authors
Sales Maurício, Luiz Felipe; Fernando Marcolan, João
- Abstract
Objectives: to verify the presence of psychic suffering in male students of the Nursing graduation related to gender and to analyze determining factors and attitudes to cope with psychic suffering. Method: descriptive and exploratory study, with quantitative approach, carried out at a public university in the city of São Paulo (SP), Brazil, with 16 male students. The data collection was performed with a questionnaire and the data was stored in SPSS software 20, then analyzed, presented in tables and discussed with the literature. Results: participants believed in socio-historically determined prejudice. Coping actions: union among men, showing competence, support of affective persons, believing in their potential. Determinants of psychological distress: gender social prejudice, as well as professors' and health professionals' prejudice. Conclusion: students present psychic suffering because they are men in the Nursing course, stereotypes and prejudices were the main determinants; the acting in a critical and proactive way were the confronting attitudes.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; GENDER identity; RESEARCH methodology; MALE nurses; NURSING career counseling; NURSING students; PREJUDICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; STEREOTYPES; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; STUDENT attitudes; QUANTITATIVE research; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 2016, Vol 10, p4845
- ISSN
1981-8963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5205/reuol.8200-71830-3-SM.1006sup201617