1College of Nursing, Eulji University, Republic of Korea
2College of Nursing, Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea
This study explores resilience, nursing professionalism, and the college life adaptation of nursing students and identifies the factors that affect college life adaptation.
This study is a descriptive study identifying the effects of resilience and nursing professionalism on college life adaptation in nursing students. Data was collected from April to May 2017. Surveys were distributed to a total of 280 subjects. After excluding 40 incomplete surveys, a total of 240 surveys were used in the final analysis. The analyses were performed using the SPSS 24.0 program. Factors that affect the college life adaptation of nursing students were analyzed with multiple regression.
This study found that the mean resilience of the subjects was 3.64, the mean nursing professionalism was 3.88, and the mean college life adaptation was 3.22. There were statistically significant differences in the college life adaptation of the subjects by gender (t=5.41, p=0.021) and academic achievement level (F=11.41, p<0.001). Furthermore, college life adaptation showed a significant positive correlation with resilience (r=.650, p<0.001) and nursing professionalism (r=.395, p<0.001). Performing a multiple regression on the factors that affect college life adaptation showed that nursing professionalism (β=.14, p=0.013) and resilience (β=.56, p=<0.001) were significant factors. The regression explained 44% of the variance in college life adaptation.
It was found that resilience and nursing professionalism affected the college life adaptation of nursing students. In particular, it is necessary to improve resilience to increase the college life adaptation of nursing students.
Nursing, Students, Resilience, Professionalism, Adaptation
