Association of stress, resilience, and nursing student incivility during COVID-19

Although incivility in nursing education is linked with negative physical and psychological effects on students, it is unclear how resilience and stress interact and relate to student incivility. The purpose was to understand the role of resilience and stress with peer incivility in a sample of prelicensure nursing students during coronavirus disease 2019. The study design was cross-sectional and correlational. Data were from an online survey administered to undergraduate nursing students of one college of nursing in a southwestern US state during September-October 2020. In a sample of 490 students, ordinal regression model results supported that including a stress and resilience interaction term resulted in a nonsignificant effect of stress and resilience, as the main effect correlates on low-level uncivil student behavior. More research is needed to understand the prevalence of stress and resilience at different points in prelicensure nursing education so that targeted interventions can be developed and deployed to assist students.