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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.11.653

The Impacts of Perceived Stress and Empathy Ability on Altruistic Behavior of Freshman Nursing Students  

Nam, Jeong-Hui (Department of Nursing, Andong Science College)
Park, Hyun-Sook (College of Nursing, The Research Institute of Nursing Science, Daegu Catholic University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.19, no.11, 2018 , pp. 653-661 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the impacts of perceived stress and empathy ability on altruistic behavior of freshman nursing students. Data were collected from 160 freshman nursing students between 24 November and 9 December 2016. A total of 154 questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and Stepwise multiple regression. The results showed that perceived stress had significant negative correlations with altruistic behavior (r=-0.178, p=0.028) as did positive perception, a subfactor of perceived stress (r=-0.347, p<0.001). However, empathy ability was significantly positively correlated with altruistic behavior (r=0.607, p<0.001). The factors influencing altruistic behavior included emotional empathy, cognitive empathy and positive perception, with emotional empathy being the most influential factor (${\beta}=0.320$), followed by cognitive empathy (${\beta}=0.312$), which together had an explanatory power of 41.6%. Moreover, there was a mediating effect of empathy ability in the relationship between positive perception and altruistic behavior. Overall, the results of this study indicate that the management of curricula for nursing college students should search for ways to reduce their perceived stress as well as increase their empathy ability in order to improve their altruistic behavior.
Keywords
Altruistic behavior; Perceived stress; Emotional empathy; Cognitive empathy; Freshman nursing students;
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