Abstract :
[en] Aim: To describe nursing student self-esteem changes over time and its impacts on
learning strategies.
Design: Existential phenomenology.
Methods: Interviews were conducted in Spring 2018 in a purposive sample of 39 nursing
students, exploring events critical to self-esteem and their impacts. Transcriptions
were analysed descriptively and interpretatively to decipher the process that links
self-esteem, events and learning behaviour.
Results: What led to self-esteem changes were “relationships with nurses during
internships” and “receiving evaluations.” The students interpreted events and drew
conclusions about their aptitude for nursing, which in turn prompted proactive or defensive learning behaviours. Their interpretations both depended on their self-esteem
and impacted it, in a vicious or virtuous circle. Exploring self-esteem allows a better
understanding of the importance of students' relationships with nursing teams,
and of some of their defensive behaviours. Understanding the role of nursing student
self-esteem in the learning process could help improve student well-being and competence.
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