간호대학생의 첫 임상실습 전 대인관계 불안에 미치는 영향요인 = Factors Affecting Interpersonal Anxiety of Nursing Students before First Clinical Practice

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to identify interpersonal anxiety, interpersonal competence, and self-esteem of nursing students, who are to build interpersonal relationships with nursing clients and medical staff in a hospital as an unfamiliar environment, and to identify factors affecting their interpersonal anxiety with the aim of providing basic materials for developing measures to reduce their interpersonal anxiety before experiencing the first clinical practice. To conduct the study, 167 students of nursing college in G city, who acquired over two credits for practical training at school and prepared to experience their first clinical practice, were selected as the study targets and they were asked to report on their conditions through the questionnaire during the period from November 22 to December 2, 2022. Data analysis was performed by using the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. The general characteristics of the participants were displayed by the frequency and converted into percentages. In addition, t-test and ANOVA were applied to identify the difference of interpersonal anxiety, interpersonal competence, and self-esteem. Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression technique were used to analyze the correlation among them and the factors affecting the interpersonal anxiety, respectively. As for the interpersonal anxiety based on the general characteristics, it showed a difference in the ability to adjust to unfamiliar environment (F=10.514, p<.001), core nursing skills (F=5.735, p=.001), characters (t=-7.946, p<.001), and components of anxiety for first clinical practice (F=3.567, p=.016), and it had a significant negative correlation in the interpersonal competence (r=-.48, p<.001) and self-esteem (r=-.46, p<.001), and a significant positive correlation in the self-esteem and interpersonal competence (r=.44, p<.001). The interpersonal anxiety, interpersonal competence, and self-esteem scored 2.60 (out of 5), 3.47 (out of 5), and 3.80 (out of 5), respectively. Factors that affect the interpersonal anxiety were found as self-esteem (β=-.342, p<.001), interpersonal competence (β=-.323, p<.001) and the explanatory power was 31.2%. In conclusion, nursing students, who were ahead of their first clinical practice and showed a higher level of interpersonal competence and self-esteem were prone to have a low level of interpersonal anxiety. Therefore, it is considered that there is a need to develop and implement programs to improve interpersonal ability and self-esteem to reduce interpersonal anxiety of nursing students to prepare for their first clinical training.