간호대학 신입생의 그릿이 학업적 자기효능감, 대학생활적응에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

Recent trends of new students of College of Nursing show that they prefer choosing their major providing an easy path of employment or according to grades to having deep considerations of their aptitude or aspiration. Their satisfaction with major is decreasing for they feel burden of having to pass the national examination to obtain the license after taking classes of major subjects. As a result, the burden of studying major subjects of new students of College of Nursing gives negative influences on satisfaction with major causing halfway dropouts or maladaptation in the clinical sites after graduation. Therefore, self-efficacy and grit, the noncognitive feature predicting successful adaptation during the college life and adulthood, are coming into the spotlight. With this in mind, this study carried out research to provide basic materials of development of educational strategies and subject and nonsubject programs allowing new students of College of Nursing to have successful adaptation of college life, by analyzing correlation among grit, academic self-efficacy and adaptation to college life of new students of College of Nursing and inquiring into the influences of grit and academic self-efficacy on their adaptation to college life. The research results demonstrate that grit and academic self-efficacy of new students give influences on their adaptation to college life.