EFFECTS OF HUMAN POTENTIAL SEMINAR TRAINING ON ANXIETY, GRADES, AND ATTRITION AMONG FIRST YEAR NURSING STUDENTS IN AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAM (STRESS, SELF-DEVELOPMENT, GROUP WORK).
Contributors: University of Northern Colorado.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Education, Educational Psychology.
Description: This experimental study examined the utilization of the Human Potential Seminar (HPS) as a strategy in the management of anxiety and stress. This technique allows for positive self-development, group support, and goal setting. Each of these areas were felt to be important components in effective stress management.

Thirty first-year nursing students enrolled in an Associate Degree program volunteered for the study and were randomly assigned to either a treatment or control group at the beginning of their first semester of study. Two facilitators conducted the seminar sessions over an eleven week period during the Fall semester of 1983.

A comparison of the effectiveness of the HPS on three variables: state and trait anxiety, grade point averages, and attrition were performed. Data collected from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was used to measure anxiety levels. Grade point averages received at the end of the Fall semester were compared as were the number of students who did not continue in the nursing program the following semester. Subjects who volunteered to participate in this study provided pre- post-anxiety scores while post-GPA and attrition information was also gathered.

The analysis of variance and regression analysis comparing pre- and post-test anxiety scores found no significant difference between the two groups. A two sample t-test was performed to determine if any significant difference occurred between the post treatment and post-control group as reflected by their respective grade point averages. No significant difference was found. A regression analysis also revealed that no relationship existed between state anxiety and grade point averages. No disparate difference was found in attrition between the treatment and control group.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: A, page: 1871.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO, 1985.

School code: 0161.