Today we studied a SCI paper, titled “Correlation research on psychological health impact on nursing students against stress, coping way and social support”. The authors utilized a cross-sectional correlational design to explore the factors affecting nurse students’ psychological status, and the interactions between mental symptoms and stressful factors, coping style and social support in their early clinical experiences. This descriptive correlational study suggests that (1) there were positive correlations between stressful events, negative coping style and the total scores of SCL-90, while negative correlations related to positive coping style, social support and the total scores of SCL-90 and (2) stressful factors, negative coping style and social support all have main effects on mental symptoms, and positive coping style has no main effect on mental symptoms, but interactions relate to stressful factors and positive coping style, as well as negative coping style and social.

   The study suggests that it is very necessary to enhance the social support systems and to encourage them to adopt the positive coping styles in order to improve the psychological condition of nursing students