Psycho-social components determining the strategies of coping with stress in undergraduate Polish nursing students

Table 2 The dispositional optimism of the students and the year of the study

			Year of the study			Total
			I	II	III	Total
Life Orientation Test –Revised (LOT-R)	Low scores	N	35	28	29	92
	Low scores	%	28.5%	24.3%	42.0%	30.0%
	Average scores	N	41	47	28	116
	Average scores	%	33.3%	40.9%	40.6%	37.8%
	High scores	N	47	40	12	99
	High scores	%	38.2%	34.8%	17.4%	32.2%
Total		N	123	115	69	307
Total		%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
χ2 = 12.041; p = 0.017

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