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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.1.676

Factors influencing the attitude toward death in college nursing student  

Kim, Jong Gun (Department of Nursing, Suwon Women's University)
Oh, Su Min (Department of Nursing, Suwon Women's University)
Cheon, Eui Young (Department of Nursing, Suwon Women's University)
Yoo, Jang Hak (Department of Nursing, Suwon Women's University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.1, 2016 , pp. 676-683 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the relationships between self-esteem, and the awareness of biomedical ethics and the quality of life and death attitude, as well as the factors influencing the death attitude among 130 nursing students in college. The data were analyzed using an independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression with the SPSS Win 14.0 Program. Significant positive correlations were observed between the self-esteem and death attitude, between the awareness of biomedical ethics and the death attitude. The predictors for the death attitude were self-esteem (${\beta}=.25$) and awareness of biomedical ethics (${\beta}=.11$). The model explained 21.2% (F=10.4, p<.001) of the variance. The findings indicated that more study will be needed to explore the factors influencing the death attitude and to develop education programs for reinforcing a positive death attitude among college nursing students.
Keywords
Awareness of biomedical ethics; Death attitude; Self-esteem; Quality of life;
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