The Effect of the Positive Psychological Capital and Learning Flow of Nursing Students on their Academic Engagement

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the positive psychological capital and learning flow of nursing students on their academic engagement. Methods : The data were collected from 250 nursing students in a college located J city from August 1st to August 30th, 2021. Data from 236 sheets were finally analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical multiple regression analysis using the SPSS 21 program. Results : The analysis found that positive psychological capital, learning flow and academic engagement showed no significant difference regardless of some general characteristics like gender, grade and age but did show a significant difference based on the last semester academic score. Positive psychological capital turned out to have significantly positive correlations with learning flow and academic engagement. Between the latter two variables, positive correlations existed with significance. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that self-efficacy(β＝.46, p＜.001) related to positive psychological capital and learning flow(β＝.17, p＝.005) accounted for 38.3% of the variance in predicting the level of academic engagement. Conclusions : It is necessary to develop an education program to strengthen the self-efficacy of nursing students which is related to their positive psychological capital.