Health Commun.  2019 Dec;14(2):103-108. 10.15715/kjhcom.2019.14.2.103.

Effects of Self-Awareness, Other-Awareness and Empathy on Communication Ability of Nursing Students

• Park SJ
• Kang JS
• Kim GH
• Park JY
• Yang GR

• KMID: 2470615
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.15715/kjhcom.2019.14.2.103

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting communication ability of nursing students.
METHODS
The participants were 140 students in nursing college at the G city. The data were collected using online-questionnaires from July 4 to July 10 2018 and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis with SPSS 20.0 program.
RESULTS
The results show that communication ability was statistically significant according to self-awareness, other-awareness, empathy. Multiple regression analysis found that the factors influencing communication ability of nursing students were empathy(β=.540), self-awareness(β=.429), other-awareness(β=.375). These variable factors explained community ability as 46.3%.
CONCLUSIONS
This study suggests that empathy, self-awareness, other-awareness are significant factors of communication ability of nursing students. Therefore, strategies to improve communication ability of nursing students should be developed with consideration for empathy, self-awareness, other-awareness.

Keyword

Self-awareness; Other-awareness; Empathy; Communication ability

MeSH Terms

Communication*
Empathy*
Humans
Linear Models
Nursing*
Residence Characteristics
Students, Nursing*