간호 대학생의 감성지능, 문화적 공감과 문화적 역량의 관계

The Relationships between Emotional Inteligence, Cultural Empathy and Cultural Competency in Nursing Students

Purpose: This study investigated nursing students’ emotional intelligence, cultural empathy and cultural competency and its relationships in order to examine their effects upon cultural competency. Methods: Data were collected from nursing students in A universitiy in B City, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results: Emotional intelligence had a positive correlation with cultural empathy (r=.396, p＜.001), and emotional intelligence had a positive correlation with cultural competency (r=.301, p＜.001). Cultural empathy had a positive correlation with cultural competency (r=.385, p＜.001). These variables explained 27.4% of total variance on cultural competency. Conclusion: Therefore, in order to increase the cultural competency of nursing students, it is necessary to design curriculum and subject including strategies to enhance cultural empathy.