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KMID : 0614820080140020144
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
2008 Volume.14 No. 2 p.144 ~ p.149
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The Correlations between Critical Thinking Disposition and Decision Making Styles
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Kim Eun-Joo
Lim Ji-Young
Choi Kyung-Won
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Abstract
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to testify correlations between critical thinking disposition and decision making styles.
Methods: The subjects of this study were 193 freshman nursing students in the 1 nursing school located in Incheon area. The data were collected by self-reporting questionnaires. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient analysis.
Results: The score of critical thinking disposition was revealed 3.96 points. The highest was inquisitiveness, the lowest was systematicity. The most frequent decision making style was revealed a rational decision making. The next was dependant decision making, intuitional decision making as follows. The critical thinking disposition and rational decision making had a statistically significant positive correlation. However the critical thinking disposition and dependant decision making had a statistically significant negative correlation.
Conclusion: With these findings, we are found that the more increasing critical thinking disposition, the more developing rational decision making. It will suggested that the program for increasing nursing student’s critical thinking disposition focused on systematicity, analyticity and truth seeking in critical thinking sub categories.
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KEYWORD
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Critical thinking disposition, Decision making styles, Nursing student
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