|
KMID : 0391119940030020052
|
|
Ulsan University Medical Journal
1994 Volume.3 No. 2 p.52 ~ p.60
|
|
|
Psychological Characteristics of agreed students toward organ donation, potential donors who signed donor cards and kidney donors
|
|
유희정
한덕종/김창윤/이철/김헌수/한오수
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
This study is composed of three sections:
First, questionnaires were administered to 350 university student to investigate attitudes related to organ donation. Three groups(agreed(15.4%, N=54), undecided(76%, N=266), opposed(8.6%, N=30)) were identified.
Second, the subjects were composed of 30 students who agreed for organ donation with 30 disagreed students for organ donation and those subjects were administered cognition toward health, anticipatory pain for operation, anticipatory discomfort
for
operation, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Hostility scale, social desirability scale, altruism scale, internal-external control scale, selfesteem scale, death anxiety scale, psychological well-being scale, life satisfaction and affect scale. In
comparing difference between the agreed and the disagreed for organ donation, the agreed group exhibited higher scores on social desirability, altruism, psychological well-being than the disagreed group. On the contrary, there were significantly
higher
scores on anticipatory discomfort for operation and negative affect on the disagreed organ donation group than the agreed group. These results indicated that the agreed group for organ donation was more similar to the real organ donation group
than
the
disagreed group.
Third, the subjects were composed of 30 kidney donors, 30 potential donors who signed donor cards and 30 agreed student group for organ donation. In comparing among three groups, kidney donor group showed the highest scores on cognition toward
health
and life satisfaction variables. Consummated kidney donor and potential donor group showed higher scores on internal control, psychological well-being and positive affect variables than the agreed student group. But on social desirability,
self-esteem
and affect balance, there was no significant difference among three groups.
These results suggested that significant factor in willingness to donate were influenced by social desirability, altruism and self-esteem.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|
|