Sunghee Park; Youngjin Lee

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Park and Lee: Influence of Nursing Students’ Purpose in Life on Quality of Life: Focused on the Mediating Effects of Consciousness of Calling and Satisfaction with Life

Original Article

J Korean Acad Nurs Adm 2018;24(3):245-252.

Published online: 17 January 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11111/jkana.2018.24.3.245

Influence of Nursing Students’ Purpose in Life on Quality of Life: Focused on the Mediating Effects of Consciousness of Calling and Satisfaction with Life

Sunghee Park¹, Youngjin Lee^2,

¹Ajou University Hospital

²College of Nursing, Ajou University

Corresponding author: Lee, Youngjin College of Nursing, Ajou University, 164 World cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 16499, Korea. Tel: +82-31-219-7011, Fax: +82-31-219-7020, E-mail: yjlee531@gmail.com

Received 16 March 2018 Revised 16 May 2018 Accepted 27 May 2018

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 study was done to examine whether consciousness of calling and life satisfaction have a mediating effect in the relationship between nursing students’ purpose of life and their quality of life.

Methods:

The participants were 171 nursing students studying in two colleges of nursing located in Chungcheong and Gyeonggi Province. Measurements included the purpose in life questionnaire, Korea-version WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, brief calling scale and satisfaction with life scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis and multiple regression techniques with SPSS 24.0. Mediation analysis was performed according to the Baron and Kenny method and Sobel test.

Results:

There were significant correlations among purpose in life, consciousness of calling, satisfaction with life and quality of life. Consciousness of calling and satisfaction with life showed perfect mediating effects in the relationship between purpose in life and quality of life.

Conclusion:

In this study, nursing students’ purpose in life had significant influences on nursing students’ quality of life via calling consciousness and satisfaction with life. Therefore, to enhance quality of life for nursing students, it is necessary to build effective strategies and education programs to enhance nursing students’ purpose in life, consciousness of calling and satisfaction with life.

Keywords: Nursing students, Quality of life, Purpose in life, Consciousness of calling, Satisfaction with life

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Figure 1.

Model showing the influence of purpose in life on quality of life, and the mediating effect of consciousness of calling and satisfaction with life.

Table 1.

General Characteristics of Participants (N=171)

Characteristics	Categories	n(%)
Gender	Male	29 (17.0)
	Female	142 (83.0)
School year*	1st	33 (19.5)
	2nd	49 (28.8)
	3rd	39 (22.9)
	4th	49 (28.8)
Grade point average*	≥4.0	21 (12.8)
	3.5~3.9	65 (39.6)
	3.0~3.4	64 (39.1)
	2.5~2.9	10 (6.1)
	＜2.5	4 (2.4)
Hobby	Yes	91 (53.2)
	No	80 (46.8)
Religion*	Yes	69 (40.6)
	No	101 (59.4)
Growing area	Metropolitan	46 (27.1)
	Gangwon	8 (4.7)
	Chungcheong	92 (53.5)
	Gyeongsang	18 (10.6)
	Others	7 (4.1)

*Missing data excluded

Table 2.

Level of Correlational Relationships of Variables (N=171)

Variables	M±SD	Purpose in life	Consciousness of calling	Satisfaction with life	Quality of life
Variables	M±SD	r (p)	r (p)	r (p)	r (p)
Purpose in life	4.25±0.16	1	.28 (＜.001)	.30 (＜.001)	.20 (.008)
Consciousness of calling	2.69±0.64		1	.33 (＜.001)	.40 (＜.001)
Satisfaction with life	3.67±0.90			1	.70 (＜.001)
Quality of life	3.43±0.53				1

Table 3.

Mediating Effect of Consciousness of Calling in the Relationship between Purpose in Life and Quality of Life (N=171)

Variables	B	_β	t	p	R²	Adj. R²	F	p
1. Purpose in life → Consciousness of calling	1.17	.29	3.91	＜.001	.08	.08	15.31	＜.001
2. Purpose in life → Quality of life	0.66	.20	2.61	.010	.04	.03	6.79	.010
3. Purpose in life, consciousness of calling → Quality of life					.17	.16	16.76	＜.001
Purpose in life → Quality of life	0.30	.09	1.21	.229
Consciousness of calling → Quality of life	0.31	.38	5.07	＜.001

Table 4.

Mediating Effect of Satisfaction with Life in the Relationship between Purpose in Life and Quality of Life (N=171)

Variables	B	β	t	p	R²	Adj. R²	F	p
1. Purpose in life → Satisfaction with life	1.70	.30	4.13	＜.001	.09	.09	17.06	＜.001
2. Purpose in life → Quality of life	0.66	.20	2.61	.010	.04	.03	6.79	.010
3. Purpose in life, satisfaction with life → Quality of life					.49	.48	78.58	＜.001
Purpose in life → Quality of life	-0.03	-.01	-0.16	.876
Satisfaction with life → Quality of life	0.41	.70	12.02	＜.001

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