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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.9.195

The Effects of Nursing Students' Major Satisfaction and Professor-Student Interaction on their Adjustment to University Life  

Lim, Kyoung-Min (Department of Nursing, Dong ju College)
Park, Jung-Hoon (Department of Healthcare Management, Youngsan University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.19, no.9, 2018 , pp. 195-205 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was a descriptive investigation of the effects of nursing students' major satisfaction and professor-student interaction on their adjustment to university life. For this investigation, data were collected from July 22 to August 15, 2017. The collection was made through a questionnaire survey of nursing students in their 1st or 2nd year at one of eight colleges or universities located in B Metropolitan City, U Metropolitan City and G City. Participants were informed of the purpose of the study and agreed to participate in it. Of all the questionnaire sheets collected after the survey, those filled in by 205 participants were finally used for analysis here, with those by others excluded because they were considered to have been inappropriately filled out. The findings of this study can be summarized as follows. Nursing students surveyed in the study were significantly different from one another with respect to adjustment to university life depending on grade, health status, interpersonal relationships, desired career, academic achievement and family life level. Moreover, nursing students who had higher satisfaction with their major and more interactions with their professors were likely to adjust better to university life. In addition, regression analysis revealed that the nursing students' satisfaction with their major had the biggest effect on their adjustment to university life. Taken together, the results suggest that nursing students in their 1st or 2nd year of school should continue to be provided with curricular or extracurricular programs designed to improve their major satisfaction and that they should be given opportunities for communication with or counseling from their advisors or other nursing professors from the onset of university life.
Keywords
Adjustment to University Life; Major Satisfaction; Nursing Students; Professor-Student Interaction; Regression Analysis;
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