Factors Affecting Psychological Well-Being of Korean Nursing Students
AUTHORS
Mi Kyung Kang,Department of Nursing, Chungwoon University
In Kyoung Kim,Department of Nursing, Hanseo University
ABSTRACT
This is a quantitative research to find the effects of somatization symptom and academic resilience in nursing university students on their psychological wellbeing. The data were collected by structured survey form from 259 nursing university students from December 2017 to February 2018. Collected data were analyzed with frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression by SPSS/WIN 20.0. Upon the study results, psychological wellbeing showed the significant correlations with somatization symptom (r=-.435, p<.001) and academic resilience (r=.773, p<.001). Influential factors on psychological wellbeing were somatization symptom (β=-.204, p<.001) and academic resilience (β=.686, p<.001), demonstrating the explanatory power of the model with 64.9%. Based on these results, to improve psychological wellbeing, which is their quality of life, of the nursing university students, it is necessary to lower unspecific somatization symptoms related to the stress and to focus on enhancement of academic resilience in their university education. In addition, it is required to develop and apply the related programs.
KEYWORDS
academic resilience, psychological wellbeing, somatization symptom, Student, University.
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