Purpose
This study aims to explore the factors influencing nursing professionalism among nursing students, focusing on the image of nurses, satisfaction with their major, and career metacognition.
Methods
We conducted a descriptive survey with 185 nursing students from D city and K region on June 10–30, 2024. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS ver. 27.0 (IBM Corp.), employing descriptive statistics, t tests, one-way ANOVA, Scheffé tests, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and regression analysis. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify factors affecting nursing professionalism among nursing students.
Results
The regression analysis revealed that the image of nurses (β=.69, p<.001) and monitoring aspect of career metacognition (β=.13, p=.025) were significant predictors of nursing professionalism, accounting for 64.5% of the variance.
Conclusion
The findings indicate that the image of nurses and monitoring component of career metacognition are critical in shaping nursing professionalism among nursing students. Therefore, nursing education programs should aim to improve the image of nurses and promote self-reflective career practices as strategies to foster professionalism among nursing students.

Purpose
The aim of this study was to examine attitudes and knowledge regarding career planning after graduation, as well as the perceived educational environment of a pediatric clinical course, among nursing students at Menoufia University in Egypt. This study also investigated the influence of the perceived educational environment on future career planning among nursing students.
Methods
A descriptive cross-sectional study was used, with a structured interview questionnaire that included demographic characteristics, a section that measured students' attitudes and knowledge toward their career planning, and the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure Scale (DREEM).
Results
The mean total score for the DREEM scale was 109.61, and most students perceived many areas within the program as more positive than negative. However, they had low levels of knowledge regarding career planning.
Conclusion
Based on the findings of this study, further efforts should be made to stimulate students' interest in pediatric nursing, to integrate theoretical content with practice, and to improve their planning activities early during their study. It is important to engage students in discussions concerning their ideas and worries about factors they perceive as less enhancing and more threatening in clinical settings.

Citations

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  Yingying Wang, Lianhua Li, Yingxin Zhao, Zhengxia Yang, Shaoyong Ma
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  Mohamed Hashem Kotp, Mohamed Ahmed Aly, Hossam Aly Ismail, Aliaa Ezz Eldin Abd Elmoaty, Hasan Ahmed Awad Basyouny
  BMC Nursing.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
• The relationship between nursing students' psychological capital and occupational stigma in the Chinese context: A potential profiling analysis
  Xintian Wang, Yuyang Li, Jing Wang, Peihua Zhang, Xi Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Xiaoqiong Huang
  Nurse Education in Practice.2025; 88: 104532.     CrossRef
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  Seohyun Kwon, Taewha Lee
  Asian Nursing Research.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
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  Xi Zhang, Ye Chen, Bingbing Li, Lingjun Jiang, Xi Lang, Tieying Zeng
  Nurse Education Today.2024; 139: 106223.     CrossRef
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  BMC Medical Education.2024;[Epub]     CrossRef
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  Katrin Arianta, Michael Goller
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  Xiaoting Zeng, Fuxun Yang, Xinyi Xu, Tingting He, Shan Huang, Xiaoxiu Luo, Lihua Min
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  Hyun Young Koo
  Child Health Nursing Research.2022; 28(1): 5.     CrossRef
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  Child Health Nursing Research.2022; 28(1): 1.     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with career maturity among Korean high school students.
Methods
A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted using secondary data from the 2012 Korean Welfare Panel Study (KoWePS). The participants were 496 high school students who completed the supplemental survey for children, which included items on career maturity, self-esteem, study stress, teacher attachment, relationship with parents, peer attachment, depression and anxiety. Descriptive statistics, the chi-square-test, the t-test, and a decision tree were used for data analysis.
Results
The decision tree identified five final nodes predicting career maturity after forcing self-esteem as the first variable. The highest predicted rate of high career maturity was associated with high self-esteem, experience of career counseling, and high teacher attachment. The lowest predicted rate of high career maturity was associated with low self-esteem and low attachment to friends.
Conclusion
Factors influencing career maturity were varied by levels of self-esteem in Korean high school students. Thus, it is necessary to develop different approaches to enhance career maturity according to levels of self-esteem.

Citations

• Exploring the link between Paradoxical leadership and nurses’ career maturity: the mediating role of organizational learning
  Amal Diab Ghanem Atalla, Wafaa Hassan Mostafa, Mohamed Saad Saleh Ali
  BMC Nursing.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Reciprocal effects between parental support and career maturity in the developmental process of career maturity
  Sun Ah Lim, YunHee Jung
  Current Psychology.2024; 43(7): 6261.     CrossRef
• Kariyer Olgunluğunda Cinsiyet Farklılıkları: Meta Analiz Çalışması
  Ersoy ÇARKIT, Feride BACANLI
  Pamukkale University Journal of Education.2020; 48: 84.     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of career decision making by Korean nursing students.
Methods
The participants were 18 nursing students from one nursing college. Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews, and the main question was, “Could you describe your experience of making a career decision?” Data from the field and transcribed notes were analyzed using Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory methodology.
Results
Core category of nursing students’ experiences in making career decisions was ‘trying to find the way of being a nurse’. Action/interaction strategies were ‘becoming one’s own self’, ‘actively exploring the way of being a nurse’, and ‘experiencing one’s own achievement as a future nurse’. Consequences were ‘deciding on the career on one’s own’ and ‘career indecision on one’s own’.
Conclusion
The findings indicate that nursing students tried to know themselves, explore careers and experience their achievements, and that their efforts were influenced by real situations and support systems. Therefore, nurse educators should develop systems and programs to help students in nursing make career decisions.

Citations

• Effects of Career Anchors on Nursing Students’ Professional Self-concept and Work Values
  Jae Woo Oh, Ji Ah Song
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursi.2024; 31(4): 435.     CrossRef
• Career choice experiences of nursing students
  Hyun Ju Kim, Ji Hyun Kim
  The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing .2022; 28(2): 127.     CrossRef
• Factors Influencing Career Preparation Behavior of Mature Age Student Nurses
  Jong Mi Lim, Ok-Hee Cho
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursi.2021; 28(1): 23.     CrossRef
• Experiences of the Development of Parent-Child Relations among Korean College Students
  Hyun Young Koo
  Child Health Nursing Research.2018; 24(4): 420.     CrossRef
• Korean Nursing Students’ Experience of Ego Identity Development
  Hyun Young Koo
  Child Health Nursing Research.2017; 23(3): 340.     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify personal, contextual, and cognitive factors influencing the career preparation behavior of Korean nursing students. In this study, an examination was done of the fitness of a path model for the relationship among these factors based on the social cognitive career theory.
Methods
The participants were 413 nursing students in South Korea. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires that included self-esteem, social support, self-efficacy, outcome expectation, career decision level, and career preparation behavior. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analysis, and path analysis.
Results
The factors influencing career preparation behavior were self-efficacy, career decision level, self-esteem, outcome expectation, and social support. The factors influencing career decision level were self-efficacy, outcome expectation, self-esteem, and social support.
Conclusion
The findings indicate that self-efficacy is an important factor influencing the career behavior of Korean nursing students. Nurse educators should consider personal, contextual, and cognitive factors of nursing students and develop systemic career guidance programs to help nursing students’ career preparation behavior.

Citations

• Path Analysis of Career Decision-making Among Nursing Students: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
  Seohyun Kwon, Taewha Lee
  Asian Nursing Research.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Effects of Self-Esteem, Problem-Solving Ability, and Professional Nursing Values on the Career Identity of Nursing College Students in South Korea: A Cross-Sectional Study
  Jisun Min, Hyunlye Kim, Jaeyong Yoo
  International Journal of Environmental Research an.2021; 18(16): 8531.     CrossRef
• Effect of Self-Esteem, Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Well-Being on Resilience in Nursing Students
  Young Eun Lee, Eunyoung Kim, Sun Young Park
  Child Health Nursing Research.2017; 23(3): 385.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
This study was conducted to identify factors affecting mental health and behavioral problems among high school students through the lens of a Social Cognitive Career Theory.
METHODS
A descriptive study was carried out with 384 high school students in Seoul, Korea. A self-administrative questionnaire was used. It consisted of items on person . background variables, career-related variables including career barriers, learning experiences, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and career indecision, and mental health and behavioral problems. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were performed using the SPSS 21.0 program.
RESULTS
The results showed that perceived stress (t=5.12, p<.001), perceived health status (t=-4.08, p=.002), and school record (t=5.46, p<.001) were statistically significant variables. Also, career barriers (t=10.57, p<.001) was a significant factor influencing mental health and behavioral problems.
CONCLUSION
These findings indicate that among career-related variables, career barrier needs to be considered for preventive and therapeutic approach to mental health and behavioral problems in adolescents. Furthermore, the results suggest that career-related stress level should be assessed in high school students on a regular basis.

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  Hyun-Ju Chae, Sung-Man Bae
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  Eun Hye Kim, Lina Cui
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  Jun Mo Sung, Yeon Jung Kim
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  Sun Yi Yang, Yun Hee Oh
  Child Health Nursing Research.2017; 23(4): 429.     CrossRef
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  Jin Hee An, Youngmee Ahn, Seong-Ill Woo, Mi Roung Song, Min Sohn
  Child Health Nursing Research.2016; 22(1): 29.     CrossRef
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  Hyun Jung Yun
  Journal of the Korean Society of School Health.2016; 29(2): 98.     CrossRef