Child Health Nurs Res.  2019 Apr;25(2):205-213. 10.4094/chnr.2019.25.2.205.

Academic Achievement of Nursing College Students according to Academic Self-efficacy: The Mediating Effect of Major Satisfaction

• Kim J
• Kim HO
• Lee M

• KMID: 2449194
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4094/chnr.2019.25.2.205

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of major satisfaction in the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic achievement among nursing students.
METHODS
Data were collected from 142 nursing students from March 5 to March 9, 2018, and the collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 21.0 for Windows.
RESULTS
Academic self-efficacy had a significant effect on both major satisfaction (β=.31, p<.001), and academic achievement (β=.43, p<.001). The parameter of major satisfaction was found to have a significant effect on the dependent variable, academic achievement (β=.22, p=.007), and the independent variable, academic self-efficacy, also had a significant effect on academic achievement (β=.39, p<.001). Thus, major satisfaction was found to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between academic self efficacy and academic achievement. The Sobel test showed that the path of the academic achievement and academic self efficacy variables was significantly mediated by major satisfaction (Z=2.99, p=.003).
CONCLUSION
Academic self-efficacy was found to affect academic achievement, and major satisfaction was found to play a partial mediating role in the relationship between academic self efficacy and academic achievement.

Keyword

Self efficacy; Academic achievement; Job satisfaction

MeSH Terms

Humans
Job Satisfaction
Negotiating*
Nursing*
Self Efficacy
Students, Nursing