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PubMed1989

Anxiety in male nursing students at Kamuzu College of Nursing.

Anxiety is a usual and expected occurrence among nursing students. Male students are confronted with additional anxieties, especially in Malawi, due to role expectations for men. A 31-item questionnaire eliciting potentially anxiety provoking situations was presented to the 24 male nursing students at Kamuzu College of Nursing in Lilongwe, Malawi. The results of this small study suggest a high level of anxiety among these male students, and dissatisfaction about the information presented to them upon entering the Nursing Programme. The men felt particular stress about role differences between nurses and other male health workers.

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Values of male nursing students.

Values of male nursing students (MNS) at the Ohio State University (OSU) were compared with values of OSU female nursing students, collegiate men in general, medical students, teachers, and personnel and guidance workers, using the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values Scale. The scale measures relative importance to the subject of six basic interests: theoretical, economic, esthetic, social, political, and religious. The sample included 34 men and 841 women who entered the School of Nursing in 1971, 1972, and 1973. The OSU groups scored highest on the social scale, lowest on the economic scale. Males scored higher than females on theoretical and lower on religious scales. When OSU males' scores were compared with national norms, MNS scored higher than general college males on social and esthetic scales and lower on economic and political scales; MNS scored higher than medical students on economic and social scales and lower on theoretical scale; MNS scored higher than teachers on esthetic and social scales and lower on the religious scale; and MNS scored higher than personnel and guidance workers on the esthetic scale.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Personality correlates in a sample of male nurses in the British Royal Air Force.

This descriptive study provides data relevant to two currently popular views of the male nursing image. Firstly, that male nurses tend to prefer the more technological or administrative aspects of nursing and secondly, that they exhibit to an unusually high degree what are commonly thought of as being amongst the more feminine personality traits. The sample consisted of 91 male RAF nurses working in RAF hospitals, and was of predominantly English nationality. Of the 39 SRNs in the sample 65.8% preferred general nursing to the more technical areas such as intensive care, operating theatre, orthopaedic and renal. The preference for general nursing was even greater, 76.1%, amongst the 30 SENs surveyed. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and a Level of Aspiration Test (LOA) were used to obtain measures of the personality traits of the sample. The scores obtained showed that the male RAF nurses were significantly less psychotic than male civilian nurses, male civilians or serviceman of similar age. They were also significantly less extraverted than servicemen as a whole and significantly more stable than the male civilian norm. A comparison of SRNs with SENs revealed only two significant differences. The SRNs were significantly less extraverted and had a significantly higher level of adpiration than the SENs.

Adult↗
PubMed1992

Sex-role orientation and work adaptation of male nurses.

Three competing hypotheses regarding the influence of sex-role orientation on work-stress (pressure and strain at work) and work-attraction (work centrality and satisfaction) adaptation of 154 male nurses were contrasted. The findings reveal that even in a female-dominated profession, masculine-type male nurses were, on the whole, the best adapted type while the feminine-type male nurses were the least. The androgynous-type nurses, though ranking high in pressure and strain stemming from their work, nevertheless ranked highest in work satisfaction. In contrast, the undifferentiated were not stressed nor pressured at work, but they did not enjoy their work. These analyses were repeated for 54 female nurses. Among the female nurses no significant differences were found between the four sex role orientations, indicating that the differences found among the male nurses stemmed from the special situation in which a male nurse finds himself. It is suggested that change in the nature of the nursing profession into more "masculine" tasks also may partially explain the results.

Adaptation, Psychological↗