title: Are you positive? The influence of life orientation on the anxiety levels of nursing students.
abstract: Is there a relationship between nursing student's anxiety levels and orientation to life, optimism, or pessimism? Participants are 1st year nursing students prior to the first acute care clinical experience in a small, Midwestern city in the United States. An inverse relationship is noted between student's life orientation and level of anxiety.
authors.affiliation: Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing, Quincy, Illinois 62305, USA. warningl@brcn.edu
authors.forename: Lila M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Warning
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology*; D001290:Attitude; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D009341:Negativism; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States