간호대학생의 전공만족도, 셀프리더십, 간호전문직관, 진로결정 자기효능감, 진로준비행동 간의 구조적 관계

Abstract

This study investigated the relationships of variables through the structural relationship among nursing student’s major satisfaction, self-leadership, nursing professionalism, career decision-making self-efficacy, and career preparation behaviore. The study can help how to use curriculum for nursing students. And it can contribute to improve the understanding and satisfaction of nursing students’ nursing job duty. The study designed an empirical research model by the review of previous research and the data collected from 480 nursing students in 4 universities located in Busan metropolitan city using structured questionnaire. The research model was tested by the path analysis of structural equaltion modeling using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0 program. The main results of the study are as the following. Firstly, the study showed that major satisfaction influenced nursing professionalism positively, but major satisfaction did not influence career decision-making self-efficacy and career preparation behavior. Secondly, it represented that self-leadership influenced career decision-making self-efficacy positively, but self-leadership did not influence nursing professionalism and career preparation behavior. Thirdly, it showed that career decision-making self-efficacy influenced career preparation behavior positively, but nursing professionalism did not have statistically significant influence career preparation behavior. Finally, it represented that there was the perfect mediating effect of career decision-making self-efficacy between self-leadership and career preparation behavior. Based on the results, the study suggests that the approaches of personal and university level are needed for improving nursing students’ major satisfaction and self-leadership. In particular, the result that career decision-making self-efficacy has a perfect mediating effect between self-leadership and career preparation behavior suggests that the systematic education for improving nursing student’s confidence in career decision-making in university lelvel is necessary.

Key wrods: nursing student, major satisfaction, self-leadership, nursing professionalism, career decision-making self-efficacy, career preparation behaviore