Soonyang Jang, Seunglee Kwon and Sohyeon Park
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Daegu University, Daegu, South Korea
Nursing Student, Department of Nursing, Daegu University, Daegu, South Korea
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate influence of anger expression on Smart-phone overuse of Nursing students. Methods: The subject were 283 nursing students. The data were collected using demographics, smart-phone overuse(), communication competence and anger expression questionnaires. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression. Results: The multiple regression model explained 16.5% of Smart-phone overuse among Nursing students. The significantly influencing factors were grade, communication competence, anger in and anger out among anger expression. Sub-domains of smart-phone overuse such as disturbance of adaptive and withdrawal were influenced by grade, communication competence, anger in and anger out among anger expression. Also, sub-domain of smart-phone overuse such as tolerance was influenced by grade, communication competence and anger out. Communication competence and anger out were factors influencing virtual life orientation in sub-domains of smart-phone overuse. Conclusions: These results revealed that it is necessary to develop education program on anger control and communication competence including early screening from freshman to reduce Smart-phone overuse. Key words: Nursing Student, Smart-phone overuse, Anger expression, Communication competence.
Soonyang Jang has completed her Ph.D. form Keimyung University, South Korea. She is Assistant Professor from Daegu University Department of Nursing. She has published 11 papers in reputed journals.
Email: jsny0212@gmail.com
Journal of Nursing & Care received 4230 citations as per Google Scholar report
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