| Soonhee Kim | 1 Article |
PURPOSE
The aim of this study was to determine whether job-seeking stress, career decision-making self-efficacy, self-esteem, and academic achievement had an influence on nursing students' happiness. METHODS The participants were 147 nursing students in D city. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed with SPSS/WIN 19.0 using ANOVA, t-test, Pearson correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. RESULTS Factors that had an influence on happiness included major satisfaction(highly unsatisfied beta=-.251, p=.001), average monthly family income(between four and six million won beta=.222, p=.002), career decision-making self-efficacy(beta=.198, p=.010), major satisfaction(satisfied beta=.196, p=.006), and subjective health(unhealthy beta =-.167, p=.020). These factors explained 33.5% of the variance in student happiness. CONCLUSION The results of this study reveal that career decision-making self-efficacy, self-esteem, major satisfaction, and job-seeking stress were important intrinsic factors in the happiness of nursing students. Thus, it is necessary to help these students attain more self-efficacy, self-esteem, and major satisfaction rather than focusing on academic achievement in order to increase their happiness. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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