Health Commun.  2021 Jun;16(1):7-15. 10.15715/kjhcom.2021.16.1.7.

Mediating Effect of Cultural Competence between Cultural Empathy and Nursing Professionalism in Nursing Students

• Park JH
• Park JH

• KMID: 2526456
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.15715/kjhcom.2021.16.1.7

Abstract

Background
: The purpose of this study was to identify the degrees of cultural empathy, cultural competence and nursing professionalism and to investigate the mediating effect of cultural competence between cultural empathy and nursing professionalism in nursing students.
Methods
: A cross-sectional descriptive study design was used. A total of 139 participants was surveyed using a self-report questionnaires including general charactericis, a cultural empathy questionnaire, a cultural competence scale, and a nursing professionalism scale. The descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation, and a mediating effect analyses were used for data analysis.
Results
: The average score of cultural empathy, cultural competence, and nursing professionalism were 3.86, 3.59, and 4.00, respectively. Positive correlations among cultural empathy, cultural competence, and nursing professionalism were noted. Cultural competence showed a significant mediating effect on the relationships between emotional empathy and nursing professionalism and the relationship between cognitive empathy and nursing professionalism.
Conclusion
: Nursing students must recognize the necessity of multicultural nursing through multicultural education. Nursing students should have a nursing professional intuition capable of assessing and solving problems in subjects with diverse cultural backgrounds by encouraging cultural empathy and cultural competence for multiculturalism.

Keyword

Cultural empathy; Cultural competence; Profession; Nursing students