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Vertical Bullying in Nursing Education: Coping Behaviors of Turkish Students


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Objective: This study aims to analyze the extent of vertical bullying and the type of behaviors used by students to cope with vertical bullying and harassment, and to find out whether any their Nursing School has special programs to overcome this problem.

Materials and Method: To estimate bullying at nursing school a short version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire is used and data were collected by means of anonymous self-reported questionnaires.

Result: A large percentage (60%) of the nursing students reported that they had experienced at least one of the thirteen bullying behaviors at daily and weekly frequencies during the last six months. The students most often identified both their clinic nurses and lecturers were the most frequently source of bullying behaviors.

Conclusion: In contrast to previous studies on bullying in nursing education, this study shows that students preferred active responses to cope with bullying instead of using unhealthy and passive coping behaviors which were found in previous studies

 


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Vertical Bullying, Harassment, Coping strategies, Turkey
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Serap Palaz
Department of Labor economics and Industrial relations, Balikesir University, Turkey

Abstract


Objective: This study aims to analyze the extent of vertical bullying and the type of behaviors used by students to cope with vertical bullying and harassment, and to find out whether any their Nursing School has special programs to overcome this problem.

Materials and Method: To estimate bullying at nursing school a short version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire is used and data were collected by means of anonymous self-reported questionnaires.

Result: A large percentage (60%) of the nursing students reported that they had experienced at least one of the thirteen bullying behaviors at daily and weekly frequencies during the last six months. The students most often identified both their clinic nurses and lecturers were the most frequently source of bullying behaviors.

Conclusion: In contrast to previous studies on bullying in nursing education, this study shows that students preferred active responses to cope with bullying instead of using unhealthy and passive coping behaviors which were found in previous studies

 


Keywords


Vertical Bullying, Harassment, Coping strategies, Turkey

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