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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2017.15.12.435

The Effect of Self-Efficacy and Positive Thinking on Subjective Happiness of Nursing Students  

Kim, Su-Ol (Dept. of Nursing, Gwangju University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.15, no.12, 2017 , pp. 435-444 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purposes of this study was to evaluate the effect of self-fficacy and positive thinking on subjective happiness of nursing students. In this study, 265 data was collected from nursing students of D-city in South Korea from April 4 to 22, 2016. Collected data was analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 Statistics Program. with descriptive statisticsm, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression using SPSS WIN 21.0 program. There were significant predictors of subjective happiness for nursing students were self efficacy (${\beta}=.023$, p<.01), positive thinking (${\beta}=.610$, p<.001), explaining 48.7% of the variance in subjective happiness. The most important predictors of subjective happiness for nursing students were positive thinking. These findings can be utilized to development of strategies for increasing subjective happiness of nursing students. We suggested a follow-up study that explains the subjective happiness of nursing students by expanding students number.
Keywords
Subjective Happiness; Positive Thinking; Self Efficacy; Nursing Students; Program;
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