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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.1.177

Predictors of Empathy for Nursing Students  

Yeo, Hyun-Ju (Division of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.1, 2017 , pp. 177-184 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to establish an intervention strategy for nursing students' empathic ability enhancement by confirming the degree of empathy ability of nursing students to confirm the relationship between empathy ability and diversity acceptance, emotion recognition clarity, and other person' s recognition. The subjects were 173 nursing students. Data were collected as a self-report questionnaire consisting of general characteristics, diversity acceptability, emotional clarity, other-awareness, and empathy. We carried out t-test, ANOVA, Scheff's test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression using IBM SPSS Statistics 19. The results show that there was a significant difference in empathy ability according to the general characteristics of the subjects according to academic year and practice experience, and empathy was statistically significant according to academic year, diversity acceptability, emotional clarity, and other-awareness. Factors influencing empathy ability of nursing students were academic year, diversity acceptability, emotional clarity and other-awareness, and these variables explained empathy ability as 51.9%. In order to improve empathy ability of nursing students based on these results, we should adopt a nursing education program that can accept subjects with various backgrounds and clearly recognize emotions in a therapeutic setting.
Keywords
Empathy; Diversity acceptability; Emotional clarity; Other-awareness; Nursing student;
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