Critical Thinking Disposition, Professional Self-concept and Caring Perception of Nursing Students in Korea

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the association among critical thinking disposition, professional self-concept, and caring perception in nursing students and to identify its effects on professional self-concept. 161 nursing students, who were freshmen and sophomores having performed no clinical practice in Seoul, participated in this study. The data were collected from September to December 2013 and the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Significant positive correlation was found among critical thinking disposition, professional self-concept, and caring perception; critical thinking disposition and caring perception significantly affected professional self-concept and accounted for 15.7% of it. These results imply that efficient education programs can help establish a solid concept of caring and improve critical thinking ability, contributing to the development of the nursing profession.

Living as a nursing college students in Korea

“…This result represents a different result of Mwale OG et al, study [9], and one similar to the result of H.Y.Woo et al, study [10]. It can be seemed very different but there were common sense as it indicated in two studies, that would emphasize the need for this plan like overcoming the difficulties through vivid method.…”

A scoping review of clinical reasoning research with Asian healthcare professionals

“…This second category comprises articles relating to the assessment of critical thinking (30%, n = 71). Common assessments are the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (and its Chinese version), the California Critical Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (and its Chinese version), Critical Thinking Disposition Scale-Korean version and Watson–Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (Atay & Karabacak, 2012 ; Chen et al, 2010 ; Huang, Chen, Yeh, & Chung, 2012 ; Kaya & Yalniz, 2012 ; Kim, Moon, Kim, Kim, & Lee, 2014 ; Moattari, Soleimani, Moghaddam, & Mehbodi, 2014 ; Pai, Eng, & Ko, 2013 ; Pilevarzadeh, Mashayekhi, Faramarzpoor, & Beigzade, 2014 ; Suliman & Halabi, 2007 ; Woo & Tak, 2015 ; Zhang et al, 2017 ). Among the subscales of these instrument tools, low scores of truth-seeking, confidence, systematicity and inference are frequently reported in Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Turkish, Iranian and Pakistani medical and nursing students (Atay & Karabacak, 2012 ; Chen et al, 2010 ; Huang et al, 2012 ; Kaya & Yalniz, 2012 ; Kim et al, 2014 ; Mahmoodabad, Nadrian, & Nahangi, 2012 ; Moattari et al, 2014 ; Pai et al, 2013 ; Penjvini & Hejrani, 2015 ; Wong, 2007 ; Woo & Tak, 2015 ; Yeh, Chen, & Huang, 2009 ; Yildirim, Ozkahraman, Korkmaz, & Ersoy, 2011 ; Zhang & Lambert, 2008 ; Zhang, Li, Wu, & Chen, 2009 ; Zia & Dar, 2019 ).…”

“…reported in Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Turkish, Iranian and Pakistani medical and nursing students(Atay & Karabacak, 2012;Chen et al, 2010;Huang et al, 2012;Kaya & Yalniz, 2012;Kim et al, 2014;Mahmoodabad, Nadrian, & Nahangi, 2012;Moattari et al, 2014;Pai et al, 2013;Penjvini & Hejrani, 2015;Wong, 2007;Woo & Tak, 2015;Yeh, Chen, & Huang, 2009;Yildirim, Ozkahraman, Korkmaz, & Ersoy, 2011;Zhang & Lambert, 2008;Zhang, Li, Wu, & Chen, 2009;Zia & Dar, 2019).…”

Interpretive Ability on Common Haematological Tests and critical thinking ability among B.Sc Nursing students

“…Jeong (2015) found that critical thinking disposition was positively correlated with perspective taking (r=0.482, p<0.001), fantasy (r=0.227, p<0.001), and empathic concern (r=0.195, p=0.002) 17 . Woo & Tak, (2015) illustrated that critical thinking disposition positively correlates with caring perception (r=0.174, p=0.024) and professional self-concept (r=0.343, p=0.022) 18 . A similar study by Park, Chung, & Kim, (2016) demonstrated significant correlation between nursing competency and critical thinking disposition (r=0.59, p<0.001) and self-directed learning readiness (r=0.54, p<0.001) 19 .…”