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The effect of empathy ability of nursing college students on attitude toward mental illness

간호 대학생의 공감 능력이 정신 질환에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향

  • Kim, Mi Jin (Dept. of Nursing Science, Daejeon Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 김미진 (대전과학기술대학교 간호학과)
  • Received : 2018.08.16
  • Accepted : 2018.09.14
  • Published : 2018.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between empathy ability and attitude toward mental illness in nursing college students. The subjects of this study were collected in June, 2017 for the 4th grade students attending the nursing department in D city. The data were collected using the SPSS.19 program. The results showed that empathy ability of nursing college students had a significant effect on the attitude toward mentally ill patients. The explanatory power of empathy ability on each subscale was 18% for benevolence, 16% for authoritarianism, 9 % for social restrictiveness, and 4% for community mental health ideology. In conclusion, the empathy ability of nursing college students was found to affect the attitude toward the mentally ill. As the empathy increased, the authoritarianism of the mentally ill was lowered, the benevolence was increased, the social life support and community mental health ideology was positive, so the positive attitude toward mental illness was increased overall. Therefore, it is necessary to systematically train and education nursing college students to develop empathy needed for the therapeutic relationship. These efforts will contribute to the improvement of the awareness of the mentally ill.

본 연구는 간호대학생의 공감능력과 정신질환에 대한 태도와의 관련성을 확인하고 공감이 정신질환자에 대한 태도의 하위척도에 미치는 영향력을 파악하기 위해 시행되었다. 연구대상자는 D광역시에 소재한 간호학과에 재학중인 4학년을 대상으로 2017년 6월에 자료 수집하였으며 SPSS.19프로그램을 이용하여 통계처리 하였다. 연구결과 간호대학생의 공감능력은 정신질환자에 대한 태도에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며 각각의 하위척도에 미치는 공감능력의 설명력은 자비심에 18%, 권위주의에 16%, 사회생활제한 영역에 9%, 지역정신보건개념에 4%로 나타났다. 결론적으로 공감능력이 높아질수록 정신질환자에 대한 권위주의가 낮아지고 자비심은 증가되며 사회생활지원에 대해 긍정적이며 지역정신보건개념이 긍정적으로 형성되어 전반적으로 정신질환자에 대한 긍정적인 태도가 증가되는 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 간호 대학생의 치료적 관계 형성을 위해 요구되는 공감 능력 함양을 위한 체계적인 교육과 훈련이 필요하며 이 같은 노력은 정신질환자에 대한 인식개선에 기여할 것으로 판단된다.

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