Undergraduate nursing students face tremendous stress in regards to academic and clinical demands while emotional intelligence (EI) is a topic of interest in the nursing field. This study examined whether problem-focused coping methods for stress are related to ability and personality. In this study, EI represented ability and locus of control (LOC) represented personality. Confrontive coping, seeking social support, and planful problem-solving represented the problem-focused coping variables. A survey instrument which represented a combination of the Assessing Emotions Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, Ways of Coping Scale (Revised), and the Rotter Locus of Control Scale was administered to 11 undergraduate nursing schools during the spring semester of 2019. The results indicated that EI had strong and statistically significant correlations with each of the other variables in the study which were LOC, stress, confrontive coping, seeking social support, and planful problem-solving. The results further supported that EI was a statistically significant predictor for each of the three problem-focused coping variables. It was concluded that level of stress did not mediate the relationship between EI and any of the three problem-focused coping methods. In addition, LOC moderated the relationship between EI and stress. The limitations and possibilities for future research are addressed in this study. Specifically, future research should examine specific stressful encounters in addition to the participants' perception on if the stressful encounter was impactful and if the participant had the resources to cope with the stressful encounter. This information would provide insight into each participant's primary and secondary appraisals.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer beskriver våldet i sina egna självbiografier samt vilka copingstrategier som kan identifieras i deras berättelser. Med hjälp av fyra självbiografier skrivna av kvinnor som under många år levt med en våldsutövande man ska deras beskrivning av våldet belysas. Empirin kommer med hjälp av teorier så som normaliseringsprocessen och teorier om copingstrategier att analyseras. Våldet som belyses är fysiskt, psykiskt, sexuellt och ekonomiskt. Resultaten visar att kvinnorna beskriver liknande tillvägagångssätt och händelser kring alla de olika våldsformerna. Männens kontroll och isolering dominerar kvinnornas liv och leder till en känsla av förlorad verklighetsuppfattning. Copingstrategierna som identifierades delades upp i emotionell och problemfokuserad coping. Emotionellt fokuserad coping identifierades som bland annat att ventilera, hitta stöd, religion samt förnekelse av sin situation. Den problemfokuserade copingstrategier identifierades som informationssamlande, anpassade beteende och sökandet efter sin nya roll. / The purpose of this study is to examine how women who have been subjected to intimate partner violence describe the violence in their own autobiographies, as well as which coping strategies can be identified in their stories. With the help of four autobiographies written by women who lived with a violent man for many years, their description of the violence will be highlighted. The experience will be analyzed with the help of theories such as the normalization process and theories of coping strategies. The coping strategies are divided into emotional and problem-focused coping. The violence highlighted is physical, psychological, sexual and financial violence. The results show that the women describe similar approaches and events around all  different forms of violence. Men's control and isolation dominate women's lives and lead to a sense of lost perception of reality.The coping strategies identified were divided into emotional and problem-focused. Emotionally focused coping was identified as, among other things, ventilating, turning to one's religion for support and denial of one's situation. The problem-focused coping strategies are identified as information gathering, adapted behavior and the search for one's new role.