• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.104-113
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• 2016

This study was conducted to describe the relationship and influencing factors among college life adaptation, academic self-efficacy, and department satisfaction of freshman nursing students. There were 345 345 nursing freshman between November 30 and December 4 who participated in this study. The mean score of the college life adaptation, academic self-efficacy, and department satisfaction was $2.91({\pm}0.52)$, $2.79({\pm}0.60)$, and $3.55({\pm}0.47)$. The college life adaptation related with male group (p=.004), entering motivation (p=.027), friendship satisfaction (p<.001), first semester grade (p=.005), and academic self-efficacy related with male group (p=.040), entering motivation (p=.047), desired work (p=.015), friendship satisfaction (p=.014), first semester grade(p<.001), and department satisfaction related with entering motivation (p=.004), friendship satisfaction (p<.001), and first semester grade (p=.002) all showed statistical significance. There was a significant positive correlation among college life adaptation, academic self-efficacy (r=.223, p<.001), and department satisfaction (r=.342, p<.001). A significant and positive correlation was found between academic self-efficacy and department satisfaction (r=.218, p<.001). Department satisfaction was largely influenced by the college life adaptation. The regression model explained 23.1% of college life adaptation. In conclusion, this study showed that college life adaptation of freshman nursing students was correlated with academic self-efficacy and department satisfaction. Moreover, to increase the college adaptation of nursing freshman, it is necessary to develop educational programs to improve academic self-efficacy and department satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.67-87
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• 2017

This study aims to investigate the effects of college students' library satisfaction on college life satisfaction. In order to test this relationship, two surveys were conducted involving 360 college students at two universities in Seoul. The results of the first survey show that after controlling for the educational service satisfaction and facilities satisfaction, there is a significant influence of college students' library satisfaction on college life satisfaction. The second study added variables for the three components of library service quality (librarian service quality, library resources and service quality, and library facilities and environmental quality). The results of the second survey show that there is a significant influence of library service quality on college library satisfaction, and again a significant influence of college students' library satisfaction on college life satisfaction. Moreover, the results of two group analysis show that the influence of college library satisfaction on college life satisfaction is stronger in high usage group than low usage group. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.873-884
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• 2014

The study was conducted to identify the influencing factor of self-esteem and major satisfaction on college adjustment among nursing students. The subjects consisted of 182 nursing students. Data were collected from November to December 2013 and analyzed using SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. The mean score of self-esteem (2.65), major satisfaction (3.43) and college adjustment (3.14) were above the average. Among demographic factors, grade-level, gender, club activities, and monthly income showed significant difference of the score of college adjustment. College adjustment was statistically significantly higher when self-esteem was higher, major satisfaction was higher. Based on the findings of this study, programs promoting major satisfaction and appropriate counseling and academic guidance for nursing students are needed for college nursing students in order to promote college adjustment.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.77-85
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• 2016

The present study evaluated the SNS addiction tendency, mental health, and the student's adjustment to college life to identify the correlations between each of these independent variables on the dependent variable, the adjustment to university life of undergraduate students. Data were collected from 197 subjects in K university of G city, using a self-administered questionnaire. Mental health was negatively correlated with the adaptation to university life. A significant influence of gender and mental health on the adjustment to college life was found in this sample. These findings are expected contribute to understanding and improving the adjustment to college life of undergraduate students. Based on these findings, it will be necessary to improve mental health and multidisciplinary interventions will be needed to support the adjustment to college life in undergraduate students. In addition, these findings would contribute to the development of programs for student's adaptation to college life.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.3-12
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to understand the campus life of engineering transfer students, to devise a means for increasing their participation in the ABEEK, and to assist them to have the satisfactory campus lives through researching the satisfaction level and the campus life adaptation of transfer students. We conducted a survey targeting 193 engineering transfer students of K university and D university. The study shows that most transfer students were accepted into college through a general screening process, their grades are likely to be lower than those of the previous college, however, they tend to be satisfactory with the current campus life, and the rate of participation in the ABEEK is low. Therefore university officials need to work hard to raise the rate of the participation in the ABEEK track and the campus life adaptation of transfer students. Moreover, the male transfer students tend to be more satisfactory than the female students, and students with higher grades in the previous college are likely to show higher adaptation than those with lower grades. Therefore we should make effort to increase the satisfaction of transfer students and need to accommodate the programs for the female transfer students more positively.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.397-405
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• 2013

This study examined the effects of leisure satisfaction and hope on korean university adjustment of Chinese students. The data were collected from 361 chinese students among three universities located in Chungnam, Seoul and Incheon. Frequency, reliability, mean comparison, correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis. The results were as follows. First, chinese students in the language training group was better in the Korean university adjustment than those in each group of undergraduate and graduate students. The chinese students who stayed less than six months in Korea were better in the Korean university adjustment than those who stayed more than 6 months. Second, there was the significant positive relationship among chinese students' korean university adjustment, leisure satisfaction, and hope. Third, leisure satisfaction and hope significantly influenced korean university adjustment of chinese students. Among them, leisure satisfaction influenced most. korean university adjustment.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.68-77
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• 2017

This study investigated the relationships among major satisfaction, nursing professionalism, and college life adaptation of the nursing students in order to present basic data to assist in adaption of college life. The study subjects were 553 nursing students from two universities in K and P cities by self-report questionnaire survey. Data were collected between November 7 and November 25, 2016. The data were analyzed through frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and hierarchical regression using SPSS 21.0 program. As a result, major satisfaction, nursing professionalism, and college life adaptation averaged 3.86(out of 5), 3.97(5), and 3.34(5) respectively. There was a significant positive correlation between major satisfaction and nursing professionalism, college life adaptation on nursing students. In addition, nursing professionalism had moderating(F=8.460, p=.004) and partial mediating (${\beta}=.21$, p<.001) effects between major satisfaction and college life adaptation among nursing students. In conclusion, nursing professionalism is a very important factor in the effects of major satisfaction of nursing students on college life adaptation. Therefore, in order to promote college life adaptation of nursing students, and increase their major satisfaction, it is necessary to develop and apply an educational program that can establish the right nursing professionalism.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.89-96
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of parents support (PS), friends support (FS), and professor support (PS) of university students, and to examine the correlation between gender, social support, and university life satisfaction (ULS). The survey was conducted using 564 college students in Gangwon-do using a questionnaire consisting of 27 social support and 5 ULS. As a result, PS, FS, and PS showed positive answers, but the PS showed relatively negative answers and ULS was not high. And regardless of gender, there was a statistically significant correlation between PS, FS, PS and ULS (p<0.00). In the correlation of gender, PS, FS, PS, and ULS, there was a statistically significant correlation between PS, FS, PS and ULS without gender (p <0.00). In order to improve the ULS, it is necessary to promote interaction through systematic friends and professors as well as parents.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.213-220
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to pave the way to promote the institutional commitment of the students enrolled by identifying the factors that affects on their institutional commitment. The data collection was conducted starting from November 19, 2020 until November 26, 2020 by using online questionnaires and 220 participants were from C-university students in Chang-won, Kyung-nam Province. As a result of analysis, the average score for institutional commitment was 3.30, the average level of satisfaction of university life was 3.62, the cultural climate was 3.39 and the level of satisfaction for extracurricular program was 3.48, which was in high range. Institutional commitment has a positive correlation between the level of satisfaction of university life, the level of satisfaction for extracurricular programs(p<.001). The most critical factor that affects the institutional commitment was the level of satisfaction of university life and the level of satisfaction for extracurricular programs, the cultural climate in order. The result can be interpreted that institutional commitment is influenced by students' major and the level of satisfaction of university life and the level of satisfaction for extracurricular programs, and the level of satisfaction of university life has relatively high level of influence out of other factors, indicating that the effort to improve the institutional commitment of the students is needed at the collegiate level.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.265-272
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• 2017

This study was to investigate the relationship among clinical practice stress, major satisfaction, campus life satisfaction of nursing students. Data was collected from university students in C. do province and college students in S city. All 81 subjects was analyzed by SPSS 21.0ver. Campus life satisfactions were differences on gender and major satisfaction. Satisfied nursing students with campus life had lower level of clinical practice stress than unsatisfied students, especially in health care giver's attitude, patient's attitude, clinical circumstances and mental factors. This study suggested that the convergent extracurriculum program should be paid to interpersonal relationship competence before clinical practice.