Table 4.

The sense of satisfaction with the life of the surveyed nursing students and the year of study

			Year of the study			Total
			I	II	III
Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)	Low scores	N	32	24	27	83
		%	26.0%	20.9%	39.1%	27.0%
	Average scores	N	56	44	29	129
		%	45.5%	38.3%	42.0%	42.0%
	High scores	N	35	47	13	95
		%	28.5%	40.9%	18.8%	30.9%
Total		N	123	115	69	307
		%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
χ2 = 13.319; p = 0.0098

χ2 chi² independence test, p significance level < 0.05