A Comparison Study on Multicultural Attitude and Relating Factors of Nursing College Students and Non-Nursing Major Students in Korea

Abstract

De p a r t me n to fNu r s i n g ,Ha n n a m Un i v e r s i t y요 약 간호학전공 대학생들과 타전공 대학생들의 다문화에 대한 태도를 비교하고, 관련된 요인을 파악하고자 시도되었으며 서술적 비교연구로 설계되었다. 자료수집은 D 시의 3 개의 대학교에서 2 0 1 2 년 1 1 -1 2 월에 수집되었으며, 연구참여에 동의한 3 0 9 명의 간호대학생들과 1 9 5 명의 타전공 대학생들이 참여하였다. Mu n r o e 의 도구를 강혜정이 한국형으로 수정보완 한 Th e Ko r e a nv e r s i o nMu n r o eMu l t i c u l t u r a l At t i t u d eS c a l eQu e s t i o n n a i r e ( MAS QUE ) 가 사용되었다. 도구의 신뢰도는 . AbstractThe study was to investigate the multicultural attitude of nursing students and non-nursing major students.And it was explored influencing factors related with it. This study was used a descriptive comparative designed. Data were collected 3 universities in D city in from Nov. to Dec. in 2012. After receiving the agreement, 309 nursing students and 195 non-nursing major students were recruited. They were asked to fill in a self-reported questionnaire about multicultural attitude. The Korean version Munroe Multicultural Attitude Scale Questionnaire (MASQUE) was used. Cronbach's alpha were .85. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0. The mean score of multicultural attitude was 4.44 of 6 points(73%) in all participants. Nursing students' multicultural attitudes scores were equal to other college students'. The factors related to multicultural attitude were the experiences of having foreigner friends, going abroad, attending multicultural events, and contacting multicultural contents. The students who have cared foreign patients were not higher than others in nursing students group(t=.30, p=.76). For nursing students contacting foreigners in clinical practice, it doesn't make a differnce in multicultural attitude. The culturally empowering programs were needed for nursing students to improve multicultural attitudes.

A Comparative Study on Multicultural Attitude of University Students: Austria, Hungary and Turkey Sample

“…The researchers recommended that the scale be used as a whole because of the low reliability of the last subscale. MASQUE has been extensively used in different cultures to determine the level of multicultural attitudes (Enger & Lajimodiere, 2011;Kim, 2014;Polat & Barka, 2012;Tinkler, Hannah, Tinkler, & Miller, 2014;Uttley, 2008;Weiler, Helfrich, Palermo, & Zimmerman, 2013). The average scores of participants regarding the level of multicultural attitude were interpreted based on the following intervals:…”