Nursing Students' Awareness of Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Career Search Behavior and Commitment to Career Choice

Kyoung A Lee; Jinhyun Kim

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Lee and Kim: Nursing Students' Awareness of Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Career Search Behavior and Commitment to Career Choice

Original Article

Perspectives in Nursing Science 2015;12(1):42-49.

Published online: 19 April 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16952/pns.2015.12.1.42

Nursing Students' Awareness of Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Career Search Behavior and Commitment to Career Choice

Kyoung A Lee¹, Jinhyun Kim^2,

¹Graduate Student, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul

²Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Corresponding author: Kim, Jinhyun College of Nursing, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Tel: +82-2-740-8818, Fax: +82-2-741-4375, E-mail: jinhyun@snu.ac.kr

Received 24 February 2015 Revised 6 March 2015 Accepted 10 March 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose:

The purpose of this study was to investigate nursing students' awareness of career decision-making self-efficacy, career search behavior and commitment to career choice. Methods: Data were collected using a self-report questionnaire from 397 nursing students in D city from October 1 to October 8, 2014. Results: The average score of career decision-making self-efficacy, career search behavior and commitment to career choice was 3.42, 3.08 and 3.27 on a Likert 5 point-scale respectively. Career decision-making self-efficacy and career search behavior were significantly different according to grade of subject. There were positive correlations between career decision-making self-efficacy, career search behavior and commitment to career choice. Conclusion: It is necessary to develop an effective career support program from 1st grade to improve nursing student's career decision-making self-efficacy, career search behavior and commitment to career choice.

Keywords: Career decision-making self-efficacy, Career search behavior, Commitment to career choice, Nursing student

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Table 1.

General Characteristics (N=397)

Characteristics	Categories	n (%)
Grade	1	138 (34.8)
	2	95 (23.9)
	3	95 (23.9)
	4	69 (17.4)
Gender	Male	54 (13.6)
Gender	Female	343 (86.4)
Satisfaction with nursing major	Yes	351 (88.4)
Satisfaction with nursing major	No	46 (11.6)
Career decision	Yes	327 (82.4)
Career decision	No	70 (17.6)

Table 2.

Comparison of Major Satisfaction and Career Decision by Grade and Gender

Variables	Categories	Major satisfaction			Career decision
		Yes	No	x² (p)	Yes	No	x² (p)
		n (%)	n (%)	x² (p)	n (%)	n (%)	x² (p)
Grade	1	133 (96.4)	5 (3.6)	14.604	105 (76.1)	33 (23.9)	25.694
	2	83 (87.4)	12 (12.6)	(.002)	69 (72.6)	26 (27.4)	(＜.001)
	3	78 (82.1)	17 (17.9)		85 (89.5)	10 (10.5)
	4	57 (82.6)	12 (17.4)		68 (98.6)	1 (1.4)
Gender	Male	48 (88.9)	6 (11.1)	0.014	42 (77.8)	12 (22.2)	0.907
Gender	Female	303 (88.3)	40 (11.7)	(.561)	285 (83.1)	58 (16.9)	(.220)

Table 3.

Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Career Search Behavior, and Commitment to Career Choice

Variables	Categories	M±SD
Career decision-making self-efficacy	Self evaluation (5 questions)	3.50±0.52
	Setting an objective (5 questions)	3.50±0.51
	Career relation data gathering (5 questions)	3.42±0.48
	Making a plan (5 questions)	3.35±0.53
	Solving a problem (5 questions)	3.31±0.54
	Total (25 questions)	3.42±0.44
Career search behavior	Self-exploration (12 questions)	3.20±0.59
	Environmental-exploration (16 questions)	2.98±0.60
	Total (28 questions)	3.08±0.56
Commitment to career choice	Vocational Exploration and Commitment (19 questions)	3.25±0.41
	Tendency to Foreclose (9 questions)	3.31±0.41
	Total (28 questions)	3.27±0.33

Table 4.

Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Career Search Behavior, and Commitment to Career Choice according to General Characteristics

Characteristics	Categories	Career decision-making self-efficacy		Career search behavior		Commitment to career choice
Characteristics	Categories	M±SD	t or F (p) Scheffé	M±SD	t or F (p) Scheffé	M±SD	t or F (p) Scheffé
Grade	1^a	3.47±0.44	13.584	3.00±0.56	12.829	3.30±0.36	1.301
	2^b	3.31±0.38	(＜.001)	2.87±0.50	(＜.001)	3.24±0.31	(.274)
	3^c	3.27±0.35	b, c＜a	3.18±0.49	a, b＜d	3.23±0.30
	4^d	3.64±0.50	b, c＜d	3.35±0.58	a, b＜c	3.29±0.32
Gender	Male	3.45±.041	.630	3.07±0.62	-.007	3.31±0.37	.951
Gender	Female	3.41±0.44	(.529)	3.08±0.55	(.995)	3.26±0.32	(.342)
Major satisfaction	Yes	3.42±0.42	.698	3.07±0.56	-.041	3.29±0.33	3.244
Major satisfaction	No	3.37±0.54	(.488)	3.08±0.56	(.967)	3.16±0.24	(.002)
Career decision	Yes	3.46±0.45	5.116	3.12±0.56	3.341	3.29±0.33	2.874
Career decision	No	3.22±0.33	(＜.001)	2.88±0.54	(.001)	3.17±0.26	(.004)

Table 5.

Correlations among Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Career Search Behavior, and Commitment to Career Choice

Variables	Career decision-making self-efficacy	Career search behavior
Variables	r (p)	r (p)
Career search behavior	.373 (＜.001)	1
Commitment to career choice	.321 (＜.001)	.193 (.003)

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