Abstract

Resilience in nursing students has gained attention as a core nursing competency in recent years. The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of anger, social-emotional competency, and resilience among nursing students and to examine the impact of anger and social-emotional competency on resilience. This cross-sectional study was conducted from April 17 to June 19, 2024, with a total of 228 nursing students from the first to fourth grade at E University in S City, South Korea. Data were collected through an online survey using a structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 29.0 WIN Program. The results showed that the influencing factors of resilience were grade, satisfaction with university life, rumination and diffusion as dimensions of anger coping strategies, and social-emotional competency, with an explanatory power of 61.0% (F=26.318, p<.001). These findings provide a basis for the development of interventions to enhance adaptive anger coping strategies and social-emotional competency in nursing students to promote resilience. This study is significant for its multifaceted approach to anger as an emotion that is frequently felt and expressed in daily life and the social-emotional competency and resilience that nurses must possess.