Table 2.
South Korean junior and senior nursing student clinical incivility and critical thinking scores (N = 375).
| Instruments a | Juniors |
Seniors |
t | pb | 95% CI |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | M (SD) | Lower | Upper | |||
| Total Incivility (K-UBCNE) | 26.24 (10.30) | 24.40 (9.17) | 1.828∗ | .038 | -.14 | 3.80 |
| Hostile/Mean | 12.23 (4.55) | 10.07 (4.49) | 3.233∗∗ | .001 | -.12 | 1.54 |
| Exclusionary Behaviors | 11.05 (4.28) | 10.34 (3.88) | .815 | .416 | -.77 | 1.07 |
| Dismissive | 5.10 (2.72) | 3.98 (2.48) | 4.425∗∗ | .001 | .45 | 1.51 |
| Total Critical Thinking (YCTD) | 98.11 (9.96) | 100.20 (10.78) | -1.534 | .126 | -5.30 | -1.26 |
| Healthy skepticism | 14.62 (2.21) | 14.39 (2.36) | .761 | .447 | -.59 | .31 |
| Objective | 12.11 (1.33) | 12.42 (1.48) | -1.092 | .279 | -.56 | -.02 |
| Systematicity | 10.19 (1.66) | 10.33 (1.91) | .083 | .540 | -.61 | .10 |
| Prudence | 13.73 (2.39) | 14.58 (2.31) | -2.744∗∗ | .007 | -1.46 | -.51 |
| Intellectual eagerness/curiosity | 17.71 (2.82) | 17.66 (3.13) | .120 | .905 | -.71 | .67 |
| Intellectual fairness | 15.44 (2.02) | 15.81 (2.09) | -1.373 | .171 | -.95 | -.17 |
| Self-confidence | 14.19 (2.34) | 15.00 (2.03) | -2.795∗∗ | .006 | -1.29 | -.40 |
a
K-UBCNE: Korean version-uncivil behavior in clinical nursing education, YCTD: Yoon's critical thinking disposition.
b
∗p < .05 (2-tailed), ∗∗p < .01 (2-tailed).