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Purpose@#: Nursing students’ academic immersion in their major field is very important in their learning activities. It is necessary to understand the effect of empathy ability and social responsibility on major immersion. This study was conducted to understand the effect of empathy ability and social responsibility of nursing students on their major immersion. @*Methods@#: This is a descriptive research study in which a survey of 238 nursing students was analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. @*Results@#: The results of this study were empathy and social responsibility (r=.472, p<.001), empathy and major Immersion (r=.289, p<.001), social responsibility, and major Immersion (r=.597, p<.001) was statistically positively correlated. The results of the factors affecting nursing students’ major immersion were academic performance (β=-.171, p<.001), internal factor in major selection (β=-.109, p=.030), major satisfaction (β=-.284, p<.001) and social responsibility (β=.452, p<.001) variables explained about 50.1% of the major immersion. @*Conclusion@#: Through the research results, it is meaningful that nursing students can increase their immersion in the whole body through improvement of departmental achievements, internal factors in major choice, major satisfaction, and social responsibility. Nevertheless, since this study is the result of a survey of nursing students in one area, there are limitations to the expansion of interpretation.
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The purpose of this study was to identify the re lationship of hopelessness and spiritual-need of cancer patients. Subjects for this study were 272 cancer patients sampled from a madical center in Pusan. The data were collected from Feb. 1 to Mar. 10, 1998 using questionnaire method. Hopelessness measured hopelessness scale was the One(1986) modification of Beck(1974) and spiritual -need measured spiritual-need scale by Kim (1986) according to classification of Fish and Shelly. The questionnaire consisted of question regarding hopelessness scale(20 items 5 point) and spiritual-need scale (30 items 5 point scale). The reliability of this instrument was that the hopelessness scale was Cronbach's alpha=0.89 and the spiritual-need was Cronbach's alpha=0.93. The data were analyzed with the SFSS program using mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage, t-test, ANOVA, Post hok test and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient. The results of this study were as follow : 1. The mean score of the total hopelessness was 2.79 in 1(lowest) -to-5(highest) scoring system. The analysis of the hopelessness according to general characteristics of the cancer patients showed duration of treatment(F=3.77), cognition prognosis(F=2.92) age(F=2.66), religional effect of life(2.48). 2. The mean score of the total spiritual-need was 3.47 in 1(lowest)-to-5 (highest) scoring system. age(F=5.517), sex(F= .919), religion(F=25.89), religional effect of life(F=18.54), diagnosis(F= 7.67), main care giver(F=4.09), cognition of disease(F=2,92), cognition of prognosis (F=331), inspiring source(F= 12.72), acceptioal attitude of present situation(F= 13.52). according to the categoiised paiL were showed to the need for meaning and purpose(9.40), to the need for love and relatedness(7.08), and to the need for being forgiven(6,93). 3. There was significant correlation between the degree of hopelessness and spiritual-need(gamma=.146, P<0.05).