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KMID : 0869920100160010061
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Journal of Korean Academy Society of Nursing Education
2010 Volume.16 No. 1 p.61 ~ p.71
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Understanding the Meaning of Happiness Expressed by Nursing Students through Collage Art Works: A Content Analysis
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Jo Kae-Hwa
Kim Yeong-Kyeong
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aims to understand the meaning of happiness among undergraduate nursing students through small group art works.
Method: A qualitative study design was utilized. Data were collected from the students’ clinical experiences and were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. The texts were a collage and related essays written by 36 senior nursing students about the impressions on happiness through small grou p art works.
Result: There were three categories and sixteen themes classified. The three categories that emerged were definitions of happiness, feelings about happiness, and attitudes toward happiness. First category includes seven themes: hope, youth, balance, values, life, self-consciousness and companionship. Second category includes five themes: pleasantness, joy, preciousness, conflict, and disappointment. The third category includes four themes: doing something to be happy internally, doing comprehensive nursing care as a professional nurse, understanding that physical splendor isn’t requirement for happiness, and letting everyday life be faithful.
Conclusion: The results of this study may affect the students’ major in human service area of understanding about the nursing students’ genuine happiness or human flourishment.
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KEYWORD
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Nursing, Students, Happiness
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