Social Responsibility and Intercultural Competency in Nursing Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social responsibility and intercultural competency in nursing students. The participants of this study were 228 nursing students of two universities. Data were collected from June to September, 2018. The data were processed through independent samples t-test, ANOVA, Pearson s correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. The relevance between the two variables was found to be r=0.612 (p<0.001). The results of regression analysis showed that social responsibility explained 37.8% of the intercultural competency. Especially, the factors influencing the intercultural competency were found to be the social responsibility effectiveness, social responsibility practice, and social responsibility attitude. To develop the intercultural competency of nursing students, various program would need to be explored which can help increase their social responsibility.