Depression of female students in nursing school

Objective To explore the relationship between life events, coping style, personality and depression in nurse students. Method 422 Female students of nursing school aged 16～20 were investigated with ASLEC (the adolescent self rating life events checklist) ,CSQ (coping style questionnaire), EPQ (Eysenck personality questionnaire) and SDS (Zung'self rating depression scale). Results The rate of depression was 23.46%, grade 2 had lowest depression among the three grades , There was positve correlation between depression and stress intensity of life events,between depression and negative coping scores , between depression and scores of N. Multipe regression indicated that the N scores of EPQ. Stress of life events and negative coping style were significant predictors of depression.Conclusion In nurse students, grade 1 and grade 3 have highter level of depression ,which in turn has some relation to life events,coping style and personality of the students.