Research on life attitude of nursing students and relationship between it and DISC personality

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1009-6493.2017.25.012

Abstract：Objective:To explore the cognition of nursing students with different DISC personality types on life attitudes.Methods:A total of 235 different grades of nursing students were selected by cluster sampling method and were investigated with the DISC Personality Test and Life Attitude Scale to test the life attitudes of them.Results:The average score of life attitude in six dimensions ranked from high to low were:independent life,love and care,death and attitude,life experience,ideal,and presence.There was a statistically significant difference in the dimension of independent life(P<0.05) between dominance and steadiness,the difference in the dimension of the ideal between dominance and other characters was also statistically significant(P<0.05).According to the total score of life attitudes in nursing students,the four kinds of personality ranked from high to low were compliance,influence,steadiness,dominance.There were statistically significant differences in life attitude between dominance and compliance(P<0.05).Conclusions:It suggested that nursing universities should provide individualized curriculum and teaching methods according to the different characters of nursing students.The compliance personality should be regarded as the advantage character and to guide nursing students to adapt to clinical work with a better cognition and attitude.