Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan.
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 22;18(6):3272. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18063272.
The COVID-19 pandemic may cause a nursing shortage. Prelicensure nursing students who are exposed to high-stress COVID-19 events are related to defective career decision-making. This study validated the COVID-19 attitude scale and clarified how their attitudes about COVID-19 affected their behavioral intentions toward career decision-making. We conducted a cross-sectional study and recruited a convenience sample of 362 prelicensure nursing students from Northern and Central Taiwan. Two measurements were applied, including the Nursing Students Career Decision-making instrument and COVID-19 attitude scale. We used AMOS (version 22.0) to perform a confirmatory factor analysis. The Cronbach α of the COVID-19 attitude scale was 0.74 and consisted of four factors. The most positive attitude was the nursing belief factor, and the least positive factor was emotional burden. Prelicensure nursing students' COVID-19 attitudes were significantly positively associated with their career decision-making attitudes and perceived control (ß = 0.41 and ß = 0.40, respectively; < 0.001). All the key latent variables explained significantly 23% of the variance in the career decision-making behavioral intentions module. In conclusion, the COVID-19 attitude scale is valid. Although the prelicensure nursing students' COVID-19 attitudes had no direct effect on career decision-making intentions, they had a direct effect on career decision-making attitudes and the perceived control.
新冠疫情大流行可能导致护理人员短缺。接触到高压力新冠疫情事件的护理专业准毕业生与职业决策缺陷有关。本研究验证了新冠疫情态度量表，并阐明了他们对新冠疫情的态度如何影响他们对职业决策的行为意向。我们进行了一项横断面研究，从台湾北部和中部招募了 362 名护理专业准毕业生作为便利样本。应用了两种测量方法，包括护理学生职业决策量表和新冠疫情态度量表。我们使用 AMOS（版本 22.0）进行验证性因子分析。新冠疫情态度量表的 Cronbach α 为 0.74，包含四个因素。最积极的态度是护理信念因素，最不积极的因素是情绪负担。护理专业准毕业生的新冠疫情态度与职业决策态度和感知控制呈显著正相关（β=0.41 和β=0.40；均<0.001）。所有关键潜在变量共同解释了职业决策行为意向模块 23%的方差。总之，新冠疫情态度量表是有效的。尽管护理专业准毕业生的新冠疫情态度对职业决策意向没有直接影响，但对职业决策态度和感知控制有直接影响。
