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

Table 4 Hierarchical multiple regression analysis results of dissatisfaction

Variables	Step 1		Step 2		Step 3
Variables	β	P	β	P	β	P
Control variables
Sex	0.056	0.060	0.049	0.093	0.040	0.160
Age	0.008	0.799	-0.001	0.970	-0.003	0.905
Place of residence	-0.002	.946	-0.001	0.980	0.015	0.603
Grade	-0.046	0.122	-0.045	0.121	-0.037	0.196
Willingness	-0.067^*	0.029	-0.068^*	0.026	-0.055	0.066
Whether to engage in nursing after graduation	-0.129^***	< 0.001	-0.132^***	< 0.001	-0.125^***	< 0.001
Emotional Empathy			0.196^***	< 0.001	0.133^***	< 0.001
Emotional intelligence					0.200^***	< 0.001
F	5.714^***		11.673^***		16.126^***
R²	.030		0.068		0.104
Adjusted R²	0.025		0.062		0.097
R²-change	0.030		0.038		0.035

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