Abstract
BackgroundCareer maturity is an important parameter as nursing undergraduates prepare for their future careers. However, little is known regarding the relationships between attributions, future time perspective and career maturity among nursing undergraduates. The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of career maturity and its relationship with attributions and future time perspective.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was designed. This survey was administered to 431 Chinese nursing undergraduates. Independent-sample t-tests and one-way ANOVA were performed to examine the mean differences between categories of binary and categorical demographic characteristics, respectively. Pearson correlations and multiple linear regressions were used to test the relationships between attributions, future time perspective and career maturity.ResultsThe degree of career maturity was moderate among nursing undergraduates and that internal attributions of academic achievement, future efficacy and future purpose consciousness were positively associated with career maturity (all p < 0.01). These three factors accounted for 37.6 % of the variance in career maturity (adjusted R2 = 0.376).ConclusionsThese findings might assist nursing educators and career counselors to improve nursing undergraduate career maturity by elucidating the imperative roles of internal attributions and future time perspective and to facilitate their transition from school to clinical practice.
Highlights
Career maturity is an important parameter as nursing undergraduates prepare for their future careers
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the degree of career maturity and the relationships between attributions, future time perspective and career maturity among Chinese nursing undergraduates
In this study, we investigated the level of career maturity and its relationship with attributions and future time perspective in Chinese nursing undergraduates
Summary
Career maturity is an important parameter as nursing undergraduates prepare for their future careers. Little is known regarding the relationships between attributions, future time perspective and career maturity among nursing undergraduates. The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of career maturity and its relationship with attributions and future time perspective. As a primary aspect of career development, career maturity may predict individual occupational satisfaction and career success throughout one’s life [3, 4]. With respect to nursing students, improved career maturity combined with appropriate career strategies is important as nursing students move forward in their future profession [10]. For nursing educators, assessing nursing undergraduate career maturity may prepare
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