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To analyse the relationship between death attitudes, emotional intelligence, resilience and self‐esteem in a sample of nursing undergraduates.

The death attitudes held by nursing students may influence the care they offer to end‐of‐life patients and their families. Emotional intelligence, resilience and self‐esteem are important social and emotional competencies for coping positively with death and dying.

Cross‐sectional and correlational study.

Participants were 760 nursing undergraduates from four nursing schools in Spain. Data were collected in 2013–2014. The students responded anonymously to a self‐report questionnaire that gathered socio‐demographic data and which assessed the following aspects: fear of death (Collett‐Lester Fear of Death Scale), death anxiety (Death Anxiety Inventory‐Revised), perceived emotional intelligence (Trait Meta‐Mood …