• Medicine · Apr 2024

    Assessing the relationship between ethical reasoning confidence and self-esteem among female nursing students for enhancing the quality of work life: A cross-sectional study.

    • Shaherah Yousef Andargeery and Sally Mohammed Farghaly Abdelaliem.
    • Nursing Management and Education Department, College of Nursing, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Apr 5; 103 (14): e37614e37614.

    AbstractTo investigate the relationship between ethical reasoning confidence and self-esteem among female nursing students for enhancing the quality of work life. A necessary component of professional competence and a prerequisite for high-quality care is ethical reasoning confidence competence. As well as, self-esteem is the subjective perception of one's own worth and significance. This was a descriptive correlational cross-sectional study design. Data was collected within a month starting from December 2022 to January 2023, and 164 nursing students were recruited from one College at a governmental university in Riyadh. Respondents completed the self-administered, online questionnaires. Measures included self-esteem, and ethical reasoning confidence questionnaires. Findings investigated via descriptive and inferential statistics as well as structured equation modeling to examine the mediating effect of self-esteem on behaviors and attitudes of the nursing students toward ethical reasoning confidence. Nursing students had a moderate perception regarding their self-esteem as well as their ethical reasoning confidence (Mean = 2.99, SD ± 0.58; and Mean = 3.57, SD ± 0.55, respectively). Data revealed that self-esteem was accounted for the prediction of 54% of positive variance of nursing students' behaviors toward ethical reasoning confidence and 78% of the variance of their attitudes toward ethical reasoning confidence. Self-esteem is a significant determinant of nursing students' behaviors and attitudes toward their ethical reasoning confidence. Further research is required to ascertain whether this approach enhances nursing students' moral decision-making, moral reasoning, practical considerations, and acquaintance with ethical concerns.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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