1Department of Nursing, Deajeon University, 62 Daehak-ro, Dong-gu, Daejeon
2Department of Nursing, Chungwoon University, Daehakgil, Hongseong-eup Hongseong-gun, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
*Corresponding Author: Mi-kyung Kang Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Chungwoon University, Korea Email: bladeghost@hanmail.net
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
The purposes of this study were to identify the degree of self-leadership, academic stress and academic resilience of Korean nursing students and apprehend influential factors to academic resilience.
Data collection was conducted from December 28, 2017 to January 20, 2018, through a self-report questionnaire to 243 nursing students of Korea. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression using IBM SPSS/WIN 22.0.
This study result confirmed that self-leadership showed a statistically significant positive correlation with academic resilience and academic stress showed a negative correlation with academic resilience among nursing students of Korea. The significant predictors of academic resilience for nursing students of Korea were self-leadership, perceived health status, academic stress. The explanatory power of these variables was 43.9%.
The findings of this study suggest that the approach to the nursing curriculum reflection and program development so as to improve academic resilience of Korea nursing students. And when developing a program to improve academic resilience, the subjective health status of nursing students should also be considered.
Nursing, student, academic resilience, academic stress, self-leadership
