Factors Associated with Psychological Well-being among Korean Nursing students

This study was designed to investigate the effects of resilience and interpersonal competence on psychological well-being among nursing students in Korea.

A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted. The 282 participants were recruited from nursing students in C-do, D city. The data analysis included descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multivariate analysis using SPSS 22.0. The two models extracted through hierarchical regression analysis were tested to determine the predictors of psychological well-being in nursing students.

The findings showed positive associations among resilience, interpersonal competence, and psychological well-being. In the first model, personal factors such as religion (β = −.12, p =.018), interpersonal relationship (β = −.20, p <.001), academic satisfaction (β = −.30, p <.001), normal personality (β = −.18, p =.001), and negative personality (β = −.23, p <.001) were significant and accounted for 30.1% of the variance. Finally, when general characteristics, resilience, and interpersonal competence were entered into the final model, religion (β = −.09, p =.043), interpersonal relationship(β = −.14, p =.005), academic satisfaction (β = −.17, p =.006), personality (β = −.18, p =.001), resilience (β =.24, p <.001), and interpersonal competence (β =.22, p <.001) were significant. This final model, which included both personal factors and main variables, accounted for 42.5% of the variance.

Resilience and interpersonal competence are important factors in the psychological well-being of nursing students. Therefore, strategies should be developed to increase the psychological well-being of nursing students by improving resilience and interpersonal competence.