Medico-Legal Update | 2021
Perception of Successful Aging in Nursing Students
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to apply Q methodologies to identify and understand the type of successful agingperception in nursing students. The study organized the Q population through in-depth interviews to select21 Q samples that could represent the Q population by coordination with two professors and researchersfamiliar with the Q methodology, and 49 nursing students were selected as P-samples. The data collectionwas about three months from September 10, 2020 to September 17, 2020 and was analyzed using the PQMethod Program. According to this study, nursing students perception of successful aging was divided intofour types: Type 1 “capitalism type,” Type 2 “Self-esteem type,” Type 3 “Adaptive type,” Type 4 “Stabletype”. As a result of this study, the four types of nursing students recognized health, leisure, economicpower, and self-esteem. This study, understanding of each type of subjective aspect should be enhanced,and a wide range of insights should be provided so that nursing students can establish a value system ofhumanity and nursing professions in the undergraduate program in the future. In addition, it is expected thatit will be used as a basic material for nursing education that can grow into a nurse who can meet the nationalexpectations as a health care manager for the elderly through education that can develop the ability to copewith various problems faced in the nursing field.