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Objective: This study was conducted to determine the relationship between parenting stress and child-rearing attitudes of nurses with preschool children.
Methods: The descriptive relational design was conducted in a hospital in the center of a province in southern Türkiye. The study population consisted of nurses with preschool children working in the hospital. The entire population was studied. The study was completed with 116 nurses. The Sociodemographic Information Form, the Parenting Stress Scale for Clinical Nurses, and the Parent-Child Raising Attitudes Scale were used to collect the research data. Ethical principles were complied with in the study.
Results: The study’s total score on the Parenting Stress Scale for Clinical Nurses was 11.18 ± 1.76. The mean scores of the democratic attitude sub-dimension, oppressive and authoritarian attitude sub-dimension, and overly tolerant attitude sub-dimension were 62.43 ± 7.71, 36.87 ± 4.29, and 27.33 ± 4.85, respectively. Marital and economic status were significant on the mean score of the Parenting Stress Scale for Clinical Nurses. Educational status was significant on the mean score of overly tolerant attitude, and age at marriage was significant on the mean score of democratic, oppressive, and authoritarian attitude subscales (P < .05).
Conclusion: The study found that nurses’ democratic attitudes negatively correlate with physical and mental fatigue while positively correlating with shift and working environment. Oppressive and authoritarian attitudes positively correlate with psychological burden. Overly tolerant attitudes correlate positively with psychological burden and physical and mental fatigue but negatively with the working environment. It may be recommended that more research on parenting stress and parenting attitudes of nurses should be carried out and conducted with a larger sample group.
Cite this article as: Çi̇lek MÇ, Sariali̇oğlu A. The relationship between parenting stress and child-raising attitudes of nurses with preschool children: A descriptive study. Arch Health Sci Res. 2025; 12, 0006, doi: 10.5152/ArcHealthSciRes.2025.25006.