2006 Volume 66 Issue 1 Pages 29-37
We conducted a survey to clarify the relationship between character and academic performance of nursing students before/after clinical training prospectively. We adopted the questionnaire of STAI, Locus of Control, and Life-Events Scale and analyzed the data by multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the academic performance was closely related to internal type of Locus of Control. This is to say, nursing students who had an internal type of Locus of Control had better academic results than the students who had an external type. In addition, the type of state anxiety in the STAI was significantly related to the academic performance in the fundamentals of nursing and maternity nursing courses, as well as the total score. The type of Locus of Control altered between external and internal before and after clinical training, signifying that the type of Locus of control may reverse itself through education.
