Anxiety and Coping Styles of First-Year Nursing Students During COVID

There is an increasing amount of anxiety experienced by college students affecting their mental health and success through college (Turner et al., 2018). The increase in the mental health needs of students is far exceeding current resources on college and university campuses across the United States. Many components impact a student’s mental health including previous educational experience and pressure of choosing their future career. When an individual is psychologically and intellectually ready, they will choose their profession and develop skills and tools allowing them to accomplish their professional goals. To choose a profession, an individual must be psychologically and intellectually ready to accomplish their profession goals by developing the skills and tools they need to be successful. Choosing a profession can be an important factor in the mental health of individuals (Karaca et al., 2019). The importance of this decision and the stress of college life impacts an individual’s mental health and development of coping styles. Students who experience negative emotional feelings often develop coping styles ineffective in dealing with those negative emotions (Sun et al., 2016). Mental health disorders often begin in early adulthood, a delay in diagnosis and treatment of these mental health disorders often leads