Creativity, Resilience and Sense of Humor among Nursing Graduates, Alexandria University, Egypt

Metwally Elsayed, Mona; Abd-Elfatah Abd-Elhamid, Eslam; Ahmed Mohsen, Heba; Abd El-Gawad Mousa, Marwa

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2020.148843

Creativity, Resilience and Sense of Humor among Nursing Graduates, Alexandria University, Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Nursing, and Mental Health, Alexandria University, Egypt.

² Lecturer of Psychiatric Nursing, and Mental Health, Alexandria University, Egypt.

³ Lecturer of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt

10.21608/ejhc.2020.148843

Abstract

Background: The current and future global health and education challenges that
face the nursing graduates, critically positioned them to be more creative and
resilient. Creativity and resilience are essential for advancing the graduate-level
nursing from a level of proficiency, which is expected at the undergraduate level to
expert competency at the graduate-level. Indeed, using the sense of humor as a
means of dealing with everyday problems and difficulties is much recognized
recently as well as needed to be adopted by those graduates. Aim: investigate the
relationship between resilience, creativity, and sense of humor among the nursing
graduates. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional correlational design was
used. The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University,
Egypt. A randomized sample of 165 graduate nurses was included. Online web
based electronic questionnaires were used comprising; A socio-demographic and
Academic Data, SSCS, CD-RISC-10 and MSHS. Results: The results showed that
93.9%, 81.2% and 64.2% of the studied graduates had moderate to high levels of
creativity, resilience, and sense of humor respectively. A positive statistically
significant relationship at level of P≤ 0.01 between creativity, resilience and sense
of humor was found. Humor production and creativity domain is the best predictor
of both creativity and resilience among those graduates. Conclusion: It can be
concluded that creativity, resilience, and sense of humour are related to each other,
be a humor productive graduate nurse and using of humour as adaptive coping
strategy in daily life situations contributes to be more creative and resilient. Finally,
increase age of the graduates indicates to be more resilient. Recommendations:
Providing the graduated nurses with the space to generate new ideas and
innovations through filliped classroom, competence-based learning, problem-based
learning, and interactive learning are recommended.

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