Relationship between Clinical Practice Transition Shock and Professional Self-concept in Nursing Students: The Mediating Effect of Resilience

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study aimed to examine whether resilience has a mediating effect on the relationship between clinical practice transition shock and professional self-concept as a strategy to enhance the professional self-concept of nursing students. The subjects of the study were third- and fourth-year students enrolled in two nursing departments at a four-year university located in G city, and data were collected from April 7 to May 16, 2025. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analysis, and Baron and Kenny's regression analysis procedure. The results of examining the mediating effect of resilience according to Baron and Kenny's three-step regression analysis are as follows. In step 1, clinical practice transition shock was found to have a negative effect on resilience (β=-.310, p< .001). In step 2, clinical practice transition shock had a negative effect on professional self-concept (β=-.387, p<.001), and in step 3, resilience was found to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between clinical practice transition shock and professional self-concept (clinical practice transition shock: β=-.317, p<.001; resilience: β=.224, p<.001). These results suggest that strategies to alleviate clinical practice transition shock and enhance resilience are necessary to improve nursing students' professional self-concept.