Social support and work readiness of Chinese final-year nursing students: The moderating role of psychological resilience

Abstract

We explored the relationships among perceived social support, psychological resilience, and work readiness of final-year nursing students. Participants included 376 Chinese final-year nursing students (female = 83.8%; mean age = 20.24 years, SD = 1.37 years). They completed the Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale, the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, and the Work Readiness Scale for graduate nurses. Hierarchical regression analysis results showed that social support was significantly associated with higher work readiness. Further, social support was associated with higher psychological resilience. Psychological resilience partially mediated the relationship between social support and work readiness to be higher. These study findings suggest a need for targeted student social support programs to increase their psychological resilience, which is important for increasing their work readiness.

Keywords:

• China
• nursing student
• psychological resilience
• social support
• work readiness

Acknowledgments

We wish to offer our sincere thanks to all final-year nursing students for their unbiased participation in our study.