Correlation study on professional attitude and subjective well-being of undergraduate nursing students

Abstract

Objective To investigate and analyze the status of nursing undergraduate students ’ professional attitude and subjective well-being and related factors, so as to provide a scientific basis for college nursing students based on the importance of professional training to enhance their value orientation of subjective well-being.Methods The general well-being scale and a self-designed questionnaire were used among 385 undergraduate nursing students, who were recruited from Grade 2011, 2012 and 2013 in our school. Results The score of subject well-being of the 385 undergraduate nursing students was （75.25 ±16.89）, which was significantly higher than （72.4 ±16.7） of the norm （t =7.47,P 〈0.01）.The undergraduate nursing students had a high professional recognition and a strong sense of subjective well-being.Stepwise regression analysis showed that their understanding to the nature of the nursing profession, prospects for nursing professional, and the awareness of the importance of undergraduate nursing education were main influence factors of subjective well-being.Conclusions The professional attitude of nursing undergraduate students can be served as a good predictor of subjective well-being.Schools should continue to improve, enrich nursing teaching forms to guide undergraduate nursing students to correctly understand the nature of nursing and professional and to help nursing students to enhance their professional satisfaction and their subjective well-being. Key words: Nursing,baccalaureate; Professional attitude; Subjective well-being