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Table 3 Themes of the psychological experience and coping styles of nursing students after workplace violence

From: Nursing students’ experiences of workplace violence based on the perspective of gender differences: a phenomenological study

Psychological experience

Coping styles

Negative emotional experience

Low level of professional identity

Negative effect on self-efficacy

Responses to violence

Adjustment after violence

Anger

 

Impaired self-esteem

Explicate face-to-face

Self-adjustment

Fear

 

Self-doubt

Tolerance and avoidance

Talk to others

Grievance

  

Ask for help

Introspection and promotion

Sorrow

   

Understanding and acceptance

Helplessness