• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.1020-1030
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between academic stress, drinking related knowledge, and drinking refusal self-efficacy among nursing students, and to identify the influencing factors nursing students' drinking refusal self-efficacy. Data were collected from September 10, 2023 to October 10, 2023 after receiving informed consent from 187 nursing students enrolled in J University in C Province. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, ANOVA, t-test, Pearson's correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis according to the characteristics of variables using the SPSS/WIN 28.0 program. The results of the study showed that nursing students' drinking refusal self-efficacy was positively correlated with drinking-related knowledge (r=.21, p=.004) and negatively correlated with academic stress (r=-.21, p=.005). The factors affecting the drinking refusal self-efficacy of nursing students were identified as academic stress (𝛽=-.17, p=.016), drinking related knowledge (𝛽=.21, p=.003), and smoking status (𝛽=.19, p=.008), and the regression model was statistically significant (F=8.30, p<.001), with an explanatory power of 11.0%. Based on the above results, it is necessary to prepare a program to reduce academic stress and increase drinking-related knowledge in order to improve the drinking refusal self-efficacy of nursing students. In addition, including smoking cessation strategies for college students in the program can help increase their drinking refusal self-efficacy.