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KMID : 0926620090140030049
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Korean Journal of Hospital Management
2009 Volume.14 No. 3 p.49 ~ p.66
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Relationships of Self-Efficacy to Creative Disposition and Ability in University Students Major in Health Care
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Kang So-Young
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Abstract
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Purpose : This study was aimed at examining the relationships of university students’ self-efficacy to creative disposition and creative thinking ability.
Method : A descriptive study was conducted with a sample of 320 students enrolled 4-year-undergraduate academic programs major in nursing as well as elderly care management in one University located in Pusan, Korea. This study used: (a) 24 items of Self-Efficacy Scale originally developed by Kim & Cha(1996), and (b) 39 items of creative thinking ability and 16 items of creative attitudes in a Self-Report Form of Integrative Creativity Scale developed by Bak
& Kang(2006). The data were analyzed by using Pearson correlation and hierarchical multiple regression methods.
Result : University students’ self-efficacy has significantly positive impact on creative thinking ability(p<.001) with 26.4% of the variance and creative disposition(p<.001) with 48.9%. Creative thinking ability as well as the disposition related to creativity that university students possessed were significantly influenced by efficacy on self-control and efficacy on taking difficult tasks.
Conclusion : This result supports Social Cognitive Theory and Investment Theory of Creativity in terms that self-efficacy is the factor affecting fostering creative ability and demonstration of creativity potential to the real. This also implies that healthcare educational programs reinforcing students’ self-efficacy would contribute to breed them to healthcare professionals with creative competency.
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KEYWORD
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Creativeness, Self-efficacy, Nursing, Healthcare
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