Factors Affecting Multicultural Acceptance in Nursing Students

Objectives This study is a descriptive survey to identify empathy, self-esteem, multicultural contact experience, and multicultural acceptance among nursing students and to identify factors that influence their multicultural acceptance. Methods A sample of 122 nursing students in G city was selected, and descriptive statistics were used to analyze general characteristics and variables, independent t-test and ANOVA were used to analyze multicultural aceeptance according to general characteristics, Pearson's correlation coefficients were used to analyze correlations between variables, and multiple regression analysis was used to analyze factors affecting multicultural acceptance. Results The results of this study showed that Multicultural acceptance was significantly positively correlated with empathy (r=0.45, p<.001) and multicultural contact experience (r=0.39, p<.001). empathy (β=0.39, p<.001) and multicultural contact experience (β=0.30, p<.001) were the factors affecting multicultural acceptance, and their total explanatory power was 27.9%. Conclusions Based on the results of this study, it is hoped that programs to improve empathy and multicultural acceptance, including multicultural contact experiences, can be developed and used to improve nursing students' empathy.