Purpose: This study aimed to identify the effects of postpartum depression, social support, and maternal identity on quality of life among women in the postpartum period. Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study design was used. A total of 188 women in the postpartum period participated from breastfeeding clinics and internet community networks. A self-report questionnaire packet containing Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, social support, semantic differential scale-maternal identity, and maternal postpartum quality of life (MAPP-QOL) tools was used for data collection. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression analysis using SAS 9.4 program. Results: Postpartum depression was negatively associated with MAPP-QOL. Husband support, significant others support, myself as a mother, and my baby was positively correlated with MAPP-QOL. It was found that postpartum depression, husband support, significant others support, myself as a mother were factors influencing MAPP-QOL. These factors explained 51% of the variance of MAPP-QOL. Conclusion: The results of this study suggested that it is important to develop and implement postpartum nursing interventions that can improve postpartum depression, as well as the social support of husband and significant others, and maternal identity to enhance MAPP-QOL.

Purpose: This study investigated the mediation effect of emotional intelligence in the relationship between adult attachment and resilience among nursing college students in Korea. Methods: This study was 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades, excluding 1st-year students; a total of 137 students who were randomly sampled responded to the questionnaire at a university in Gyeonggi-do. For data analyzing, t-test, Pearson correlation, and regression (Baron and Kenny's proposed three-step approach model analysis method) were used. Results: The correlation analysis of each factor showed that both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance showed a statistically significant negative correlation with resilience. Both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance were statistically significant positive correlations with emotional intelligence. In addition, emotional intelligence was found to have a statistically positive correlation with resilience. Regression analysis on the mediating effect of emotional intelligence on the relationship between adult attachment and resilience showed that the effect was statistically significant. Conclusion: To increase the resilience of student nurses, managers must develop resilience programs and management training: adult attachment, emotional intelligence, aptitude. In addition, it will be necessary to develop a program to improve emotional utilization and emotional control ability in emotional intelligence with a relatively low average score.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of experienced nursing students' incivility and coping in clinical practice on caring efficacy. This study is a descriptive research study. Methods: The subjects of this study were 234 students in 4th grade attending C and G nursing departments. The data were collected through self-report questionnaires from 15th to 30th November 2019 and analyzed using the SPSS 22.0 program. Results: The results of this study showed that the correlation between the three variables was statistically significant. The main variables explaining the caring efficacy of nursing students were incivility and avoiding focused coping. These variables have total explanatory power of 41.6% on caring efficacy. Conclusion: Nursing colleges need to develop various practical educational strategies and programs so that nursing students can reduce the incivility they experience through clinical practice and adequately cope with the incivility. In addition, it is necessary to improve practical education and practice environments to increase the caring efficacy of nursing students.

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the influence of observation of workplace bullying and resilience on the career identity of nursing students. Methods: Quantitative data were collected using a structured questionnaire from 177 students with clinical practice in the 3rd and 4th grades of the nursing university and college located in the Daegu and Kyungpook region. Results: The observation of workplace bullying has a negative correlation with career identity (r=-.18, p=.017), but there was no significant correlation with resilience (r=-.011, p=.900). Resilience has a positive correlation with career identity (r=.55, p<.001). As a result of hierarchical regression analysis, the factors influencing the career identity of nursing students were in the order of observation of workplace bullying (β=-.17, p=.007) and resilience (β=.55, p<.001). These variables accounted for 33.2% of the variance in career identity. Conclusions: According to this study, observation of workplace bullying and resilience influenced career identity. These results suggest that it is necessary to emphasize the importance of resilience and observation of workplace bullying to improve career identity when nursing college students are in hospital practice.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of interparental conflict, the consciousness of gender equality, and career aspirations on marriage values in female university students. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted. The participants of this study were 144 female college students aged 19 or older attending universities in South Korea. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, Multiple regression analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics version 20.0. Results: The results showed that consciousness of gender equality (β=.27, p<.001) affects marriage values most, followed by interparental conflict (β=.19, p=.023). Conclusion: The results showed that interparental conflict and the consciousness of gender equality influenced marriage values. Based on these results, the discovery that gender equality has a greater effect on marriage values than interparental conflict is significant.

Purpose: This study was conducted to examine the relationship between nursing outcomes of the elderly and the staffing level of registered nurses and nurse aids to enhance the quality of care in long-term care hospitals. Methods: A secondary data analysis was performed using a long-term care hospitals database collected by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Services from October to December 2015. The database was collected from 1056 long-term care hospitals and includes variables such as Registered Nurse (RN), Nurse Aid (NA), RN and NA staffing; grade of hospitals; and 8 nursing outcome indicators. Results: Findings showed that the number of patients per RN & NA was a significant indicator of the ratio of patients with pressure ulcer improvement in the high-risk group, the decline in ADL of patients without dementia, and transfer abilities in both dementia and non-dementia groups. The nursing outcomes were closely related to the hospital grade. The better grade, the better nursing outcomes. Conclusion: Enhance nursing outcomes in elderly patients; it is required to reconsider the policies on the RN staffing ratio as a way to enhance the RN staffing ratio in long-term care hospitals.