The Relationship between Leadership Styles and Self-esteem, Satisfaction of Clinical Practice in Nursing Students

간호학생의 리더십 유형과 자아 존중감, 임상실습 만족도의 관계 연구

Purpose: The Purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between leadership styles and self-esteem, satisfaction of clinical practice in nursing students. Method:The subjects were 386 nursing students who were in college and university located around Seoul, Kyounggi, Chungchung, Kangwon province. The data were collected from July 26 to September 18, 2004 by the structured questionnaires. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression with SAS package were used. Results: 1. The score of the nursing students' transformational leadership were higher than that of the nursing students' transactional leadership. 2. The mean of satisfaction of clinical practice perceived by nursing students was 3.07, and its subcategories were practice contents 3.28, practice evaluations 3.11, practice hours 3.00, practice environments 2.99, practice directions 2.98. 3. 'Transformational leadership', 'charisma', 'intellectual stimulation' and 'individual consideration' were positively related to 'self-esteem', 'satisfaction of clinical practice' of nursing students. 4. 'Contingent reward' was positively related to 'self-esteem'. And 'Management by exception' was negatively related to 'self-esteem'. 5. 'Transactional leadership', 'Contingent reward' were positively related to 'satisfaction of clinical practice' of nursing students. 6. As a result of multiple regression analysis, the key determinants of 'self-esteem' were 'charisma' and this explained 27.41% of the total variance of it. And the key determinants of 'satisfaction of clinical practice' were 'charisma' and this explained 10.94% of the total variance of it.