Investigation Of Nursing Students' Leadership Orientations and Related Variables

Project no. 23953 · Status: Kapanmış · 2022

Summary

This study is a cross-sectional and descriptive research examining nursing students' leadership orientations and related variables.The population of the research consisted of nursing students studying at Ege University Faculty of Nursing (N=1540) and Izmir Katip Çelebi University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing (N=810). The sample of the research; 183 student nurses from Ege University's Faculty of Nursing who agreed to participate in the study, and 221 student nurses from Izmir Kâtip Çelebi University's Faculty of Nursing who agreed to participate in the study (n=404). In data collection, the Individual Introduction Form and the "Multifaceted Leadership Tendencies Scale" developed by Dursun, Günay and Yenel in 2019 were used to evaluate the leadership characteristics of individuals. The scale includes a total of 19 statements; It consists of four subgroups: "Political Leadership", "Human Sourced Leadership", "Charismatic Leadership" and "Structural Leadership" (Annex II). Scale items are evaluated with a 5-point Likert-type rating (1 = “Totally Disagree”, 5 = “Totally Agree”).The data obtained from the research were analyzed with SPSS 22.0 program. Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values were used for descriptive statistics of the data. The Kolmogrow-Smirnov test was used to evaluate the suitability of the data for normal distribution. For data that did not show normal distribution, Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis Variance Analysis were performed and the significance level was accepted as α=0.05.According to the findings; Although the mean scores of the students participating in the research regarding leadership orientations were close to each other, it was determined that they received the highest score from the human-based leadership sub-dimension and the least from the structural leadership sub-dimension.

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