Assessing the Levels of Anger and Coping Behaviour among BSc Nursing and GNM Students in MOH College of Nursing, Ludhiana, Punjab.

The study was undertaken to assess the anger and coping behaviours adopted by nursing students. A comparative study was conducted among 90 BSc Nursing students and 90 GNM students. Simple random sampling technique by lottery method was used for selecting the sample. Level of anger was assessed by Clinical Anger Scale (CAS) and Structured Coping Behaviour Checklist was used to assess the coping behaviours adopted by nursing students. The finding revealed that majority of BSc Nursing and GNM students had minimal level of anger and adopt the adaptive behaviours to tide over the angry feelings. There was moderately negative correlation between anger and coping behaviours. Gender had statistically significant effect on anger and coping behaviours in both the groups at the level of p<0.05.