간호대학생의 공감 능력과 사회적 책임성이 전공몰입에 미치는 영향

Purpose : Nursing students’ academic immersion in their major field is very important in their learning activities. It is necessary to understand the effect of empathy ability and social responsibility on majorimmersion. This study was conducted to understand the effect of empathy ability and social responsibility of nursing students on their major immersion. Methods : This is a descriptive research study in which a survey of 238 nursing students was analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. Results : The results of this study were empathy and social responsibility (r=.472, p<.001), empathy and major Immersion (r=.289, p<.001), social responsibility, and major Immersion (r=.597, p<.001) wasstatistically positively correlated. The results of the factors affecting nursing students’ major immersion were academic performance (β=-.171, p<.001), internal factor in major selection (β=-.109, p=.030), majorsatisfaction (β=-.284, p<.001) and social responsibility (β=.452, p<.001) variables explained about 50.1% of the major immersion. Conclusion : Through the research results, it is meaningful that nursing students can increase their immersion in the whole body through improvement of departmental achievements, internal factors in majorchoice, major satisfaction, and social responsibility. Nevertheless, since this study is the result of a survey of nursing students in one area, there are limitations to the expansion of interpretation.