Nursing students’ emotional empathy, emotional intelligence and higher education-related stress: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Hierarchical multiple regression prediction challenge scores

Variables	Step 1		Step 2		Step 3
	β	P	β	P	β	P
Control variables
Sex	-0.010	0.733	-0.013	0.655	-0.008	0.789
Age	-0.033	0.262	-0.037	0.210	-0.036	0.225
Place of residence	0.109^***	< 0.001	0.110^***	< 0.001	0.100^***	0.001
Grade	-0.016	0.596	-0.015	0.603	-0.020	0.488
Willingness	0.096^**	0.002	0.096^**	0.002	0.088^**	0.004
Whether to engage in nursing after graduation	0.061*	0.049	0.059	0.054	0.055	0.074
Emotional Empathy			0.087^**	0.003	0.126^***	< 0.001
Emotional intelligence					-0.123^***	< 0.001
F	5.752^***		6.229^***		7.475^***
R²	0.030		0.038		0.051
Adjusted R²	0.025		0.032		0.044
R²-change	0.030		0.008		0.013

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