Abstract
From the East Asian social and cultural perspectives and contexts, this study aimed to understand the relationships and behaviors between nursing students’ sense of filial piety and their decision-making behind selecting nursing education as their major. Forty-two traditional-age nursing students (i.e., six men and 36 women) at their final year of a bachelor’s degree program in nursing were invited. The findings indicated that many nursing students disliked their university major and the potential career pathway as a nursing professional, as none of them selected the major based on their choice and interest. The environmental context and family’s recommendations were the major impacts to influence the decision-making process of the participants. The result also indicated that filial piety, parents’ recommendations, and elderly people’s suggestions were the key factors to influence the selections and decisions of university major and career development pathways. The study provided a blueprint for related staff and professionals to create and design career counselling and services for East Asian youths to enable life investment and development.
Highlights
Nursing education and training are popular university majors for secondary school graduates, university students, and even adult returning students wishing to pursue life-long personal investment and development [1]
This study aimed to understand the relationship between East Asian nursing students’ sense of filial piety and their decision-making behind selecting nursing education as their major [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34]
The current study could not represent the overall situation in Taiwan and the East Asian region, the significant results from this study may explore and contribute to an understanding of how these extreme situations [14] happen in the East
Summary
Nursing education and training are popular university majors for secondary school graduates, university students, and even adult returning students wishing to pursue life-long personal investment and development [1]. A large number of secondary school graduates and returning students decide to study nursing as their university major and to develop their careers. Many individuals start their university education directly after completing secondary school, there are a large number of adult returning students deciding to start their college and university study during mid-adulthood [2]. The expression of decision-making for career development is more likely employed when describing that process, which can happen at different stages of life [5]
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