Anxiety provoking behaviors of nursing clinical instructors and effects on undergraduate nursing students' wellbeing: A mixed methods design.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the relationships between anxiety-provoking teaching behaviors in clinical settings and nursing students' self-reported anxiety levels, perceived quality of life and demographic characteristics.

Background: Anxiety has been consistently reported in the literature as a major barrier to nursing education. Peplau's Interpersonal Relations Theory (1992, 1997) served as a theoretical framework in the study to explore anxiety-provoking teaching behaviors in clinical settings.