간호대학생의 사회적 책임감, 공감, 도덕적 용기가 윤리적 민감성에 미치는 영향

This study aimed to examine the levels of social responsibility, empathy, moral courage, and ethical sensitivity among nursing students and to empirically analyze the structural relationships among these variables. Participants were undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a university located in City G. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires on social responsibility, empathy, moral courage, and ethical sensitivity. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 29 and including reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis. The main findings were as follows. First, the levels of social responsibility, empathy, moral courage, and ethical sensitivity were generally above average. Second, there were no significant differences in these four variables according to general characteristics such as grade, gender, or religion. Third, social responsibility, empathy, moral courage, and ethical sensitivity showed significant positive correlations with one another. Fourth, social responsibility and moral courage had significantly positive effects on ethical sensitivity, whereas the direct effect of empathy was not significant. These findings suggest that educational strategies to enhance nursing students’ ethical sensitivity should focus on strengthening social responsibility and moral courage.