Health Commun.  2022 Dec;17(2):37-45. 10.15715/kjhcom.2022.17.2.37.

The Effect of Nursing Students’ Empathy and Social Responsibility on Major Immersion

• Bae KE
• Han YI

• KMID: 2538436
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.15715/kjhcom.2022.17.2.37

Abstract

Purpose
: Nursing students’ academic immersion in their major field is very important in their learning activities. It is necessary to understand the effect of empathy ability and social responsibility on major immersion. This study was conducted to understand the effect of empathy ability and social responsibility of nursing students on their major immersion.
Methods
: This is a descriptive research study in which a survey of 238 nursing students was analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program.
Results
: The results of this study were empathy and social responsibility (r=.472, p<.001), empathy and major Immersion (r=.289, p<.001), social responsibility, and major Immersion (r=.597, p<.001) was statistically positively correlated. The results of the factors affecting nursing students’ major immersion were academic performance (β=-.171, p<.001), internal factor in major selection (β=-.109, p=.030), major satisfaction (β=-.284, p<.001) and social responsibility (β=.452, p<.001) variables explained about 50.1% of the major immersion.
Conclusion
: Through the research results, it is meaningful that nursing students can increase their immersion in the whole body through improvement of departmental achievements, internal factors in major choice, major satisfaction, and social responsibility. Nevertheless, since this study is the result of a survey of nursing students in one area, there are limitations to the expansion of interpretation.

Keyword

Nursing students; Empathy; Social responsibility; Major immersion