1College of Nursing, Hanyang Univ., 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea
2Dept. Nursing, Hanseo Univ., 46 Hanseo1 Ro, Haemi-myun, Seosan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Sunyoung Jang Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Hanseo University, South Korea, Email: sjang@hanseo.ac.kr
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
The purpose of this study was to identify the subjectivity of aesthetic cosmetic surgery recognized by nursing students.
This study was to describe the characteristics of each type, to identify the types of aesthetic cosmetic surgery, and Q methodology was applied. The 30 nursing students from ‘A’ University were asked to classify 47 statements about aesthetic cosmetic surgery.
The collected data were analyzed using QUANL PC program. In this study, nursing students classified the perception of aesthetic cosmetic surgery into 4 factors. Factor 1 was 30.80%, Factor 2 was 8.04%, Factor 3 was 5.85% and Factor 4 was 5.36%. Factor 1 has an explanatory power of 30.80%, which can be regarded as the most explaining factor for aesthetic cosmetic surgery. Of the total of 30 subjects, 8 were in Factor 1, 4 were in Factor 2, 9 were in Factor 3, and 9 were in Factor 4. Each factor corresponds to a group with similar responses to aesthetic cosmetic surgery. The subjectivity types for aesthetic cosmetic surgery were ‘Deliberate type’, ‘Positive type’, ‘Supporting type’ and ‘Conservative stance type’.
The study identified the perception of aesthetic cosmetic surgery in nurses in the clinical field and provided basic data on education.
Aesthetic cosmetic surgery, Nursing student, Subjectivity, Q methodology, Nurses
