The purpose of this study is a descriptive survey study attempted to provide basic data to provide theoretical and practical information useful for improving the nursing student's careful effectiveness in the future by confirming the mediating effect ...
The purpose of this study is a descriptive survey study attempted to provide basic data to provide theoretical and practical information useful for improving the nursing student's careful effectiveness in the future by confirming the mediating effect of social support and interpersonal competence in the influence of empathy ability of nursing college students on careful effectiveness.
Data collection was conducted from February 5, to February 12, 2019, for 254 students attending the nursing department in Jeollabuk-do and Chungcheongbuk - do.
Data were analyzed using SPSS / WIN 21.0 program, using real, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's post-analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.
The results of this research are summarized as follows:
1. The degree of empathy was of 3.44 ± 0.32 out of 5 points, careful effectiveness was 4.20 ± 0.56 out of 6 points, social support was 4.28 ± 0.55 out of 5 points, interpersonal competence was 3.33 ± 0.51 out of 5 point.
2. The difference in the effectiveness of care according to the general characteristics of the subjects was found in gender, grade, religion, satisfaction with academic performance, major related satisfaction, clinical practice satisfaction, nursing department support motivation, and hands-on experience department of child nursing, male students had high careful effectiveness score(t=2.14, p=.034), the fourth grader's score was higher for efficacy in care (t=-2.41, p=.017). If there is a religion, the efficacy score for care was high (t=2.12, p=.035) a student who was satisfied with his or her grades had a higher score for the efficacy of care (F=4.46, p=.012). In the major-related satisfaction level, the satisfaction score of satisfied students was higher than that of unsatisfactory students (F=12.55, p<.001), clinical practice satisfaction differed in the scores of careful effectiveness between highly unsatisfactory, moderate, and highly satisfying (F=8.16, p<.001). The average student's careful effectiveness score was higher than that of the student who was very dissatisfied with the clinical practice, and the care efficacy score of the student who was very satisfied was higher than that of the average student. In the nursing care support motive, the students who applied for nursing students' aptitude and hobbies were higher than the students who supported nursing because of high employment rate (F=4.57, p=.004), in the child nursing practice department, students who have experienced both neonatal rooms and pediatric wards scored higher on the care effectiveness score than students who had no experience in the child nursing school's training department (F=3.68, p=.027).
3. There was a positive correlation between empathy, social support, interpersonal competence, and caring efficacy. Empathy and social support (r=.28, p<.001), empathy ability and interpersonal competence (r=.19, p=.002) social support and care efficacy (r=.32, p<.001), interpersonal competence and caring efficacy (r=.46, p<.001).
4. The mediating effect of social support on the relationship between empathy ability and careful effectiveness of nursing college students showed that social support partially mediated the relationship between the two variables, and as a result of the Soble test, the mediating effect was statistically significant (Z= 1.68, p=.046).
5. In the relationship between nursing student's empathy ability and careful effectiveness, interpersonal relationship, as a result of verifying the mediating effect of careful effectiveness, interpersonal competence was found to mediate the relationship between the two variables partly and it was verified through Soble test that mediating effect was statistically significant (Z= 1.68, p=.046).
The results of this study showed that both social support and interpersonal competence are partly mediated in the relationship between empathy ability and careful effectiveness of nursing college students. In order to improve the careful effectiveness of nursing college students, not only empathy but also social support and interpersonal competence we can confirm that we need to develop a program that can be improved together.